Biography
“At school, my art was described as bold. I think that is the underlying influence of my photography now. Whilst subtleties have developed along the way, and time smoothes and polishes the raw, I do endeavour to portray clarity in the images I produce”.
I try and capture light, and its ever changing effect on the physical world in which we live. Without light there is no colour and we are unable to see. The varying luminescence of light and its temperature alters those colours, from cold blues through warm reds to monochrome at low light levels. I use these physical changes that occur throughout the day, night and seasons, to work towards achieving the aims I have set myself.
Locations are researched well in advance and I often spend days returning to the same place and then hours waiting for the correct conditions to capture the scene. This, coupled with the fact that the suns relative position moves constantly, and we only get one season per year, means that a single image takes months of painstaking work to capture.
If in the process, others are able to see something in a way that they would not normally see it and retain that image for years to come, then that is a bonus. Why a bonus? Because in capturing that image, I too have also seen and enjoyed what this world has to offer.”
I was born in 1957 in Southampton, England and live with my long suffering wife Julia on the edge of the New Forest, Hampshire. We have two twenty plus year old daughters who still keep returning home - can't think why! I first took up photography seriously in the early 1980’s using Olympus cameras before turning semi professional some years ago, now working at photography full time.
My work has sold in Canada and America for publication in travel guides as well as the UK. It has been used on BBC news items, newspapers and been published in various magazines. I also undertakes commercial photography, private bespoke Photoshoots, exhibitions, PhotoTreks for beginners in and around the New Forest and Photographic Workshops for intermediates in Hampshire, Dorset and further afield.
My current equipment is a Nikon system including D2xs, D200 and film cameras but occassionally use Canon as well. I use Lee and B&W filters with Manfrotto tripods and of course the excellent Lowepro camera bags and rucksacks. When I use film, it is predominantly Fuji Velia or the occasional roll of Provia.
Ian Badley