You also do a lot of street photography in color. How do you reconcile the two? Are they two different beasts entirely or do you draw influence from one to the other?...Of course you are the same photographer either way but can you talk a bit about how they are different to you or the same and how you decide to either shoot with color in mind or with BW in mind? Is it a conscious decision when you leave the house to make a certain type of picture?

I do really enjoy taking street photography images in colour, yes! I find it very attractive because it is another way of seeing the world. As a photographer (or person!) I don't want to be totally one dimensional though so initially it started as a way of trying new things, trying colour. The subject matter also relies totally on happenstance which is an aspect I love about it, you never know what's around the corner so it's something I can do without having to plan anything. Such serendipity is part of the attraction, when I see something I want to photograph and then manage to capture it how I like it, I get quite excited. It makes me happy. I do think it's a bit of a different beast though, my style of street photography is very about the light, it tends to be early morning or late evening and as these are small moments in the day it makes photographs taken at these times particularly special. As time goes by I have noticed it's influence on my cycling photography particularly when I notice a street object that I can marry with an aspect of cycling. Like let's say, if I saw a cyclist getting ready sat in a bus shelter. Now that is not a photograph I have never 'seen' but that's the sort of thing I mean. When I leave the house to street photograph I certainly have my colour 'head' on though and is a conscious decision to make those kinds of pictures. I find it particularly meditative because I go out alone, it tends to be quiet and it's photography totally on my own terms. It feels very liberating to me.

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