It's early autumn and as the days draw shorter, the countryside around me is turning a beautiful golden colour. A recent search to find a local commercial apple orchard lead me to the Apple Day at Slindon in West Sussex. With a traditional rack and cloth oak cider press, called 'Big Bertha', being used and lots of apples, I spent the day taking photos of the traditional applying pressing process.

"Click go the shears, boys, click, click, click. Wild is his blow and his hands are movin’ quick, And the ringer looks around……" Photographs of sheep shearing in Sussex. 

I met 'Krusty' whilst photographing Brightona, a charity biker event held in Brighton that raises money each year for the Sussex Heart Charity.

The Findon Sheep Fair and Village Festival is an annual event held in the beautiful West Sussex village of Findon, situated in the South Downs National Park. I have been working on an ongoing photography project to document rural life and …..

As I watched waiting to take my photos I thought that if I was an old tractor this is probably the way I would like to spend my last days. Being well looked after by a friendly tractor enthusiast and wheeled out in the summer months to various country fairs to be sat on and photographed. To be climbed on, driven and to play a part in childs fun memory of a family day out.