The morning air is cool and dry. I try to savour it, knowing it will be a sweet, sweet distant dream in a couple hours.

If your painter loves what they do enough to continue polishing to high shine until the minute you leave with your parts, they’re a keeper.

Sometimes it’s fun to back away from the fine art photography and play with grubby bikes and expired film developer.

Motor-cycling is not a strenuous pastime even for the delicate girl, who is not overburdened with strength and stamina.

Passing through some magical bit that is all ravines and empty road, I have the place all to myself. Just nothing. Nothing but empty, wild countryside.

Beauty alone is nothing without substance and intelligence and motivation to create.

The real learning didn’t start until she decided to take on the build.

Pleasure, danger, corruption of innocence, ‘modernism’, violence, and changes in the notion of space and time are all here.

You’d be forgiven for thinking people spend money on their cars to drive them; some do it to watch them burn.

Fast and dirty.

Seminal photographer known for colour saturation through dye-transfer printing

Cutting it fine and building confidence; ocean on one side, cliffs on the other, and nothing but time to think.

Just because you can disassemble a carburettor lightening fast doesn’t mean you can’t also get your needlecraft on…

Adventure was always going to be on the cards.

Captured energy; an artist manifesting machinery into pieces of timeless beauty.

R(e)ally and truly.

Any excuse for a quick braap and a chin-wag.

No way I can get out of it now. This was as ready as I was gonna be.

Being what is likely the cheapest safety conscious moto gear you can get your hands on, I’ve amassed a few pairs, but these are the ones I tend to reach for time and again.

Super Hooligan.

Conversation/motivation starters.

The poetry of home as a concept: a budding love story.

…and passionate escape artists, and occasional hooligans...

Any age is a good one with gasoline surging through your veins. Why wait until you retire?