Mark Winterbourne

A little about me ... well, what can I say. Is this about me, as in “Mark Winterbourne” or is it about my passions and enjoyment of life and everything I do.

Well, I love photography. In fact I am photography, I read photography, I teach photography, I read photography and then write photography. I think there is a high possibility it might even run through my veins. There are a few items on this blog that explain my history and my background in photography so I won’t go in to full details here.

I have a passion for seeing, a flavour for what looks good and a desire for the perfect image. I look at everything as if it were to be a memory, a reflection on my life through my own eyes but in two dimensions.

There is a word, a word that sums up everything I do, everything I think about and the gratitude and feelings I show as appreciation. That word is Value; I appreciate the day from the moment I wake, I appreciate the town I live in and its surroundings. Through my suffering and pain of this terrible head injury my days are not always as planned. I do however, use that time to reflect on what I have done and plan how to build on that to make an improvement.

At the turn of the millennium when the advent of digital photography was in its infancy I took an avid interest in aviation photography. I had spent years shooting landscapes, documentary images and raw street photography. My interest in aviation dated back to the late seventies and early eighties. It seemed fitting that moving back to the county I was born and the close proximity to the airport that I should dabble in something that I hadn’t done before.

I was introduced to a practice of uploading aviation images to well-known related websites and continued doing that for a number of years. The standards were high but also very specific. It got me thinking about my style of shooting and I realised that I wasn’t shooting for me; I was actually designing images in the camera based on the criteria for the submission sites. So this is where it all changed and I got back in the saddle…. Back to what I love….Capturing people and the life they lead is one of the most rewarding subjects I can think of. Following in the footsteps of the famous photojournalists like Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Capa and Robert Doi