Welcome to rickymarsh.com

I’ve spent a long time keeping my working life and my hobbies in separate boxes. By day, lifting and construction safety — lift plans, method statements, the standards that keep people from getting hurt. By evening and weekend, a camera and a great deal of patience, usually pointed at something with feathers.

This site is my attempt to stop keeping them apart.

The more I’ve thought about it, the more the two have in common. Both reward preparation. Both punish the assumption you didn’t check. And both, in their own way, are about respect — for the people working under a load they can’t see, or for an animal that has no interest whatsoever in my schedule.

I’m roughly ten years out from retirement, and rather than treat that as a cliff edge I’m treating it as a direction. The plan, loosely, is to let the camera take up more of the calendar as the consultancy winds down. This site is partly a record of that slow swap — the work I’m proud of now, the photographs I make along the way, and whatever this all becomes.

If you’ve found your way here, thank you for reading. Have a look around the photography, take a look at what I do, and check back now and then — I’ll be adding to it as I go.