The Mary Celeste was a real ship.

The Marie Celeste is a fictional vessel created by Conan Doyle in his story that recounted many of the true facts about the Mary Celeste.

The ship was found unmanned in the vicinity of the Straits of Gibralter with no crew aboard. The verdict was that they had abandoned ship, taking the charts and ships chronometer and compass with them, in the previous night's storm, and then the lifeboat had been overwhelmed and all had perished.

Nom de Net's are rife in the photography world, and I picked Mary Celeste as a sort of a joke as I have no substance as a tog by way of formal training, and as usual, the name that was picked out of the air, stuck.

However I have had a camera since they were made of high grade cardboard and you used an angled mirror to get your subject in your sights.

I recently treated my self to a wee Nikon D50 and am very happy with it.

I have done my years of holiday snaps and family groups and so on , and now I like to make a photograph that has more passion and more dark strength in it...

If photography were chocolate,

then mine would be the dark bitter kind
with a little ground glass in the centre.

I still do cute kitty cats when I feel like it, because I love milk chocolate too.

All rates negotiable.

Home studio, and accomodation sometimes available for models who travel afar.

A little preternatural,

a little sinister,

and, perhaps, even a little poisonous:

Mary Celeste,

for dark, brittle, bittersweet confections of light and

fantasy.