Born in November 2020 in a world daubed with yellow, orange and red, amidst a capricious confusion of “you can”, “you can’t” and “you shouldn’t”, “Project 1522” (or Day by Day as I called it back then) is in some ways a child of Covid, a way to draw my thoughts away from that all-enveloping miasma of disease, mortality and contagion that pervaded every facet of our everyday reality. I never thought it would last, but it did… for much longer than I had intended. For four years and two months, an image a day marked out my existence through the good and the not-so-good times on this wobbling planet of ours. I’d say that about 70% of the images (or more) are in and/or about nature. And that’s how it should be, as it is out there that I am most alive, whether scrutinising remote horizons or scouring the leaf mould or long grass for barely visible and infinitely fascinating forms of life. But “Project 1522” was also a stimulus to experiment with different subjects, different techniques and different ways of treating the resulting images to become a new (for me) form of expression. Will you enjoy all the images? Absolutely not. Many are downright banal, with little merit outside the flow of my daily existence, but then, isn’t that precisely what everyday life is all about? Will you understand the images? Why they were important to me then? On that particular day? Absolutely not. It was a truly personal and intimate journey, unlikely to have much meaning to anyone outside my mind and my self. But that said, if you still feel you’d like to share some of the things that passed before my eyes and my camera lens during those 1522 days, I’d be delighted to have your company for a brief stretch of my already lengthy journey on this staggeringly beautiful lump of gas-shrouded rock we call Earth. In short… welcome to my world!