Potential hooks for the eye seem to be everywhere. Busy-ness and preoccupations seem to prevent us from taking calm time to look. In being out and alone with a camera, I've found a heightened incentive to be alert to hooks of any kind.

In so much visual culture rapid change is relied upon for viewer/consumer attention. Modern lifestyles often seem to involve people being continuously busy or easily bored – or both. It appears that many of us routinely pass by the beautiful, the strange, the funny or the extraordinary - without noticing.

The readiness to be ambushed by what I see is a common thread in my 15 photos here. Examples include the following occasions:- Catching a large number of gulls, in a particular light, settled on the roof of the Hollingdean Recycling Centre ; Looking up at the sky from the street to see a Cloud Shadow in the clouds - and walking in Kemptown, to be astonished by the French Company, Retouramont, practising their 'vertical dancing' for their 2016 Brighton Festival performances.

I was born in St Albans in 1953. I spent a year in the Falkland Islands from 1971 ... and lost my first camera by the Iguacu Falls in Argentina (a Kodak 'Instamatic 104' won in a 'Love Hearts' competition). I have 4 children & 5 grandchildren. I've worked as a High School teacher and in Housing – moving to Brighton in 2001. My interests include singing to the guitar & playing the cello. For my 60th birthday, I was given a small Panasonic Camera (DMC-TZ35) - easily carried on a belt, simple to use & handy for printing homemade cards. It's through this family gift that I've been drawn in to the fun and reward of taking photos.