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When I launched this blog a bit over a year ago it was with the idea, in part at least, of rekindling my love of writing which had waned a bit over the years as a result of my nearly always having to write to other people’s specifications and expectations. Along the way though...
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I have had a fondness for black-and-white photography right from the get-go, when I first began to study photography back in Albuquerque during the 1970s. I enjoyed every second I spent in the darkroom, loved the hands-on aspect of the art and the ability of black-and-white images to tell a story, richly and evocatively,...
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Hard though it is to believe, it is New Year’s Eve again. Another year has spun past at alarming pace, and now we find ourselves on the threshold of 2013. Where is the millennium going? I was talking to my kids the other day and recalling some memories of Christmasses when I was a...
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It’s coming up on a year now since I started this blog and after looking through the photo library I have built up over that time I thought I would post a collection, a baker’s dozen, of a few of my favourites over the past year as well as some that I...
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I’ve always loved black-and-white photography. Like most photographers of my generation, it’s where my roots are. To this day I hold fond memories of studying photography at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, back in the late 1970s – spending hot nights roving Central Avenue when it was still a living stretch of...
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As you can see, this photo has little to do with cycling; it’s of an enormous colony of King Penguins on South Georgia Island. I took it several years ago during a period in my life when I spent a lot of time each year in Antarctica. I have always loved the Antarctic and...
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One of the challenges I face in shooting for this blog is that I am both the model and the photographer. This is not only a technical hassle but an artistic one as well, since among other things I would rather not have the photographs be all about me but instead represent ‘A Cyclist’...
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Something about Edward Hopper’s urban paintings have always appealed to the solitary cyclist in me – their melancholy style, a sense of late-night desolation, the themes of solitude and loneliness in the midst of a big impersonal city, and lives lived out far beyond the periphery of my own. Because of the unsocial hours...
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For some time now I have wanted to find a way of photographing – in a cycling sort of way – the ruins of the old Hastings fun pier, which forms a key part of the visual backdrop to my daily rides along the seafront. Until a few days ago, though, I could never...
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Bicycles are works of art, kinetic sculptures that literally and metaphorically transport us, and provide those of us who get about on two wheels, and identify ourselves as cyclists, with a means of personal artistic expression. Tourers, road bikes, hybrids, mixtes, MBT, porteurs, audax, whatever the breed, whatever the livery and choice of components,...
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Welcome to My-Bicycle-and-I
By way of introduction I am a magazine writer and sometime photographer who loves bicycles and cycling—not to race or get fit or even commute, but for the simple pleasure of being abroad in the world on two skinny wheels.
Since I enjoy writing nearly as much as I enjoy riding, I decided to put together this eclectic collection of stories, essays, reviews and columns.
I hope you'll find some things you like. Read a bit more here.
