Pigeons in Formation, Valencia, Spain. May 2002.

I don’t know why I started to take this picture, just one of those scenes that look interesting in some way I guess, and then the pigeons started to move about in my viewfinder as if choreographed. This is a perfectly typical scene in Valencia, a city of hundreds of churches and thousands of church doors, but this simple picture has remained one of my favourites out of the countless photographs I have taken there.

Plaza Redonda, Valencia, Spain. September 2002.

Sunday mornings are always the time for the pet animal market in the centre of Valencia. This gentleman, a budgerigar breeder, was standing on the sunlit side of the small circular plaza with the light falling on his back and his white table acting as a reflector in front of him. I don’t think he was really as sinister as he looks.