Photography allows you the opportunity to create your own narrative. It is an intimate journey and you are able to work completely solo. Most other artistic outlets requires a collaboration and a consensus. With photography, particularly low tech, you can control the context and the framework. I always like to work in series-I am thinking contextually about the whole rather than individual images. Although every image has to work on its own merits. Blue is the colour we associate with harmony. It can be also be seen as cold, and sometimes with melancholy. It is the frisson between the two I was looking for when toning these series of images. Compositionally they are reflective and calm, and the colour helps to imbue this calmness. There is also sadness as the objects are decaying or have been destroyed. The concept is not pre-ordained. It is an evolutionary process and will eventually become self-evident. I had these images in mind and worked with them until they became a reality. Robert Boynes, the painter, would say to me, the artist makes decisions constantly, every part of the process is a decision. I often hear the works I produce are quiet, and I suppose they are. I do think I work in a quiet manner, I am quiet inside, and this is reflected in the images I make. Mature work takes time to develop. When you begin photography you are immersed in the technique, f-stops, shutter speed, lens technology etc. That is the technical mastery. But to make more interesting and broader work you need to develop as Stephen Shore said "a psychological mastery". One that is deeply imaginative and personal.