Every year I take hundreds of photographs on holiday.

Every year I take hundreds of photographs on holiday.

Nothing commissioned. Not portfolio photographs. Not for a client. No deadlines, no mood boards, no campaigns, no one else’s expectations.

Just pictures for me.

The sort of pictures that, 95% of the time, end up sitting on one of my hard drives, quietly ageing in a folder with a deeply imaginative title like “France 2026.”

And it’s a shame. I rarely find the time to revisit them properly.

Recently, while travelling from Scotland to France on the cruise ship Balmoral, where I was giving talks about my career and work over the years, I found myself doing what I always do when I have a camera in my hand. And it was a joyous!