Simon Pole

Profile

I am an experienced photographer based near Edinburgh.
My work covers many styles and genre, please see my gallery for an example of some of the work I do.

The clipnotes version
I started out photographically at the age of 8 where I worked as a darkroom assistant for 2 years before even picking a camera up, that knowledge became very important in later years.
The photographer that I was working with gave me my first camera and taught me the basics step by step, I was hooked, maybe I will do the same thing to someone one day.

The more detailed version
My photography covers many genres and is limited only by my imagination the ability to achieve what I want and the equipment that I have at my disposal.

My first love is landscapes, My mainstay in latter years is with the photography of people, particularly fine art and erotic nude, although I will and do work with numerous other styles.
Additionally I work with, wildlife and motor sport (sometimes) to name just a few.

My quirks and method of madness
I like to collaborate with the people that I work with, to find the inner “them” instead of telling them what to do, this method works for me and can produce unique, emotional and expressive images.

On Landscapes
Love them and live them, very fulfilling and challenging as well as being good for general physical fitness.

On people
Fascinating, you will never meet two alike, I enjoy the interaction and of course meeting many different people from all walks of life.

On Nudes
Still one of the big taboos for some people, for many nude is smut and always will be, not so, the body and all its shapes and forms is fascinating, in many ways a mobile landscape with a personality, likes and dislikes.
Possibly the oldest and most subjective form of artistic photography, for me the pinnacle is when a female says its beautiful and tasteful only then do you know you have got it right!

Likes:
Honesty (and honest critique)

Dislikes:
Dishonesty of any form.

My Ideology
I work with digital (mostly these days) like as it is film, I shoot sparingly, with film shooting without forethought costs money, with digital it costs time, I don’t have much to spare so shoot selectively, the more time I spend searching the hard drive for the great shot from many is less time with the camera in my hand and therefore counter productive.
Photography is a way of being,

Exceptions
Experimentation.

They wouldn’t have made the cane if you weren’t meant to break the rules.

I am new here, more of my work can be seen at:
simon-pole.co.uk
and
Photo Genesis Gallery