How best to photograph a poet? The dexterity to play with language always intrigues me and impresses me to no end, since I'm rather challenged at decoding poems. They can be puzzling - but I'll keep trying.

Trenton New Jersey graffiti writers, Leon Rainbow and Will Kasso invited me to check out their studio space. These guys paint and paint and paint and keep painting.

I saw the film Star Wars when it first came out. My mum dropped me at the cinema in Bedford, I was seven years old. As a kid that film was the best thing that happened. I collected the action figures one by one.

After exploring a rather pedestrian documentation of poppies I decided to take the route of distortion. These images have not been digitally altered. This is most certainly a 'stumble upon' discovery

I've been collecting nests for a few years. I've had several bird houses that been designed to remove the nest, since some birds won't use another bird's nest. Often I find them the in park after a windy day.

Lux is my Bull Terrier. What a great and loyal pet she is. Early in the mid-19th century the breed was developed to satisfy the needs for vermin control and animal-based blood sports. Since that was idea was swiftly outlawed, the breed fell out of fashion. Only to be reintroduced later as a men's fashion accessory.

I work with a lot of restaurants in the area - and as you'd expect, they like to show everything as perfect and possible - neat and tidy. Well that's not how it is - many restaurants are chaos, a revolving door of transient staff, professional servers between jobs or about to back to school. I was a waiter once - and a bad one at that.

Waste and brands has been common fodder among artists for years. The iconography is recognizable on the surface level forging an immediate connection. Brand colors, type and logos are buried deep in our sub-conscious from childhood.

Irving Penn, one of the greatest studio photographers is naturally a influence. He has a series of poppy photographs that are stunning.

Series of scans from my old Agfa DuoScan T1200 - can't believe it still works. Been saving bits of plant material and scanning at the absolute maximum capacity of everything possible with this old scanner. I have customized a lot of settings. I like this scanner now it's old.

I found some slide sheets of negatives from 15 years ago! When I saw the bunny peering out of the box I had to scan the negative and make a print. I printed the image in sections, like own version of a Doug Mike Starn print.

Got to meet and work with Joyce Carol Oates for a photo shoot for Princeton Magazine. What fun she is to work with. Since then, I've become a fan and have read a few of her books.