Just a walk
There was no photographic expedition behind these images. I was simply out walking Hercules, first around Goodrington and then at Bakers Field in Newton Abbot. I had my camera with me, but no particular photograph in mind.
Perhaps that's when photography becomes most interesting. Without a plan, you stop searching for what you think you should photograph and start noticing what is actually there.
The things we pass
A single white flower amongst a mass of green caught my attention. Nothing rare or spectacular, but isolated by its colour it suddenly became difficult not to see.
Light along the way
Elsewhere, an old stone bridge and the light filtering through the trees gave me something completely different, shape, texture and shadow. In black and white, the colour disappears and those elements become the photograph.
Then something makes you wonder
The makeshift shelter beneath the tree was different again. I don't know its story, and perhaps I don't need to. Someone had made a space there using what was available.
For me, photography doesn't always have to provide the answer. Sometimes a photograph is more interesting because it leaves us with a question.
Quietly watching
And then the heron. Almost lost amongst the vegetation, perfectly still while everything around it seemed tangled and chaotic.
It would have been very easy to walk past without ever noticing it was there.
Perhaps Hercules deserves some credit
While Hercules is busy investigating everything at ground level, I'm usually looking around to see what I've nearly missed. Perhaps I should officially appoint him Location Scout for RobbieCimages — although his payment demands in treats are already excessive.
The photographs we don't plan
These aren't glamorous locations and they aren't spectacular scenes. They are simply things I noticed while out walking.
And perhaps that's really what Through My Eyes is becoming about for me. Not trying to make the ordinary extraordinary, but recognising that the ordinary can be worth looking at in the first place.
Sometimes we look. Sometimes we see. There is a difference.
14th September 2026
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