Using this site: click on images to open image albums. Albums can also be viewed in full-screen lightbox mode.

Visual curiosity

• Curiosity
  
• Ambiguity
  
• Surprise
  
• Secrets
  
• Complexity
  

Auditory curiosity

• Some sounds
  

Kinaesthetic curiosity

• Some feelings
  

Films and multimedia

• Films and multimedia
  

Photography albums

• Recent work (lightbox view)
  
• Portfolio - my favourite images (lightbox view)
  
• Abstract (lightbox view)
  
• City and street - city (lightbox view) and street (lightbox view)
• Country (lightbox view)
  
• Coast (lightbox view)
  
• Flora (lightbox view)
  
• Motorsport (lightbox view)
• Portraits - portrait (lightbox view) and self-portrait (lightbox view)
  
• Still life (lightbox view)
  
• Wildlife - birds  (lightbox view), mammals  (lightbox view), marsupials  (lightbox view), insects  (lightbox view) and reptiles  (lightbox view)
  

Photography projects

Events

• Capernwray dog trials 2019 (lightbox view)
  
• Hack Morecambe 2018 (lightbox view)

Places

• Arctic (lightbox view)
• Birmingham: Birmingham 2017 project (lightbox view) and Brum Squared (2016) (lightbox view)
  
• Galapagos Islands: reptiles  (lightbox view), birds  (lightbox view), mammals  (lightbox view), landscapes  (lightbox view) and other images (lightbox view)
• Heysham project (lightbox view)
  
• Hong Kong (lightbox view)
• Lancaster project (lightbox view)
  
• Lancaster canal project - 2019 bicentenary (lightbox view)
  
• Liverpool (lightbox view)
• Morecambe - Morecambe project (lightbox view), Morecambe Winter Gardens project (lightbox view) and Hack Morecambe 2018 (lightbox view)
  
• Singapore (lightbox view)
• Western Australia (lightbox view)

People

• Steppe Brothers (lightbox view)
  
• Live music photography project - Red Ray and the Reprobates, Flowerpot (lightbox view), Away from the Numbers  (lightbox view), Parka Monkeys (lightbox view)
  
• Help for Heroes charity shoot (lightbox view)

Social comment

Social comment (lightbox view)

Homeless  (lightbox view)

The People's Vote political march, London, October 2018  (lightbox view)

Things

• Tree project (lightbox view)
  
• Eye project (lightbox view)

Photographic collections

• Ray 30 (lightbox view)
  
• Cameron's boozy boat cruise (lightbox view)
• Amerikafest (lightbox view)
  

Art

• Watercolour (lightbox view)
  
• Composite (lightbox view)
  
• Drawing (lightbox view)
  
• Life drawing (lightbox view)
• Graphic Design (lightbox view)
• Ink (lightbox view)
  
• iPad (lightbox view)
  
• Mixed media (lightbox view)
  
• Pastels (lightbox view)
  
• Prints  (lightbox view)

The wilderness 

I loved this stuff when I did it: of course, we move on artistically...

• Visual experiments (lightbox view)
  

This site is an exploration of my multimedia approach to curiosity. My skills and ideas are very much "in development". I am a member of the Lancaster Photographic Society

I am available for interesting photographic and art projects.

Contact me by email

 Brad Cheek

This event raised over £5,000 for St Johns Hospice, Lancaster - www.sjhospice.org.uk.

Video of the event

Extended version includes the awards ceremony.

Slideshow of images from the event

(load the album of the slideshow)

This print is for sale at https://www.gillianandmay.co.uk/product-page/digital-art-giclee-print-by-brad-cheek All profits from each sale go towards the Save Grange Lido campaign. To learn more visit www.savegrangelido.co.uk

Lancashire County Council has been reported as the worst council in the country for plastic recycling. This may not be all their fault though, as recycling the more "difficult" plastics may actually cost them money. Why isn't there a national system for plastic recycling?

Heysham beach

Heysham Beach (Adobe Spark presentation)

There is active beach cleaning activity around Morecambe Bay.

Crisp packets

8 million Walkers Crisp packets are produced every day. They are made of metallicised plastic and cannot be recycled. Most of these will end up in landfill, this one ended up in the Lancaster canal.

Walkers Crisps has reintroduced a recycling scheme, but ”Consumers can now visit 191 drop off points around the UK with their empty packets, though some may face a long trip." The carbon footprint of everyone travelling miles to drop off a crisp packet is huge. How many will still end up in landfill? Why can't the local recycling systems just collect them and recycle them? This is a start (or a gimmick), but not really good enough.... And it is only one example of single use plastic. There's a bigger picture...

A collection of images form various bands around the country...

(click on slideshow image for fullscreen view)

Red Ray and the Reprobates

www.redrayandthereprobates.com

Red Ray and the Reprobates - the early years

Red Ray and the Reprobates live at the O2, Bristol

Flowerpot

www.flowerpotofficial.com

Away from the Numbers

Parka Monkeys

Go to the live music project section at Bradverts Graphics

Bid and Rebuild: an auction of contemporary art raising money for two charities supporting refugees to rebuild their lives in the UK. http://www.bidandrebuild.co.uk

This auction includes one of my works, and you can bid for it here: 

http://www.bidandrebuild.co.uk/?attachment_id=116

“Sometimes, you have to let go of the picture of what you thought life would be like and learn to find joy in the story you’re living.”

MRI

CT

DEXA

I have 3 prints in this exhibition of Lancaster Photographic Society images, from 14 January to 17 February 2009.

Pizza Margherita

2 Moor Lane

Lancaster

LA1 1QD

The gallery is in a prominent position, just off the ring road around the town centre, opposite the Dukes Playhouse in Moor Lane. There are several car parks nearby. We are also in close proximity to the Grand Theatre in St Leonardsgate and the Vue Cinema in Church Street. 

Go through to the back of the restaurant and up the stairs to the gallery on the first floor. There is no obligation to purchase food, and the restaurant staff will be delighted to point you in the right direction.

Prints are for sale with a guide price of the £50, and this includes a donation to charity by art@margherita

There is currently a small exhibition (4 images) of my work at the Consult Centre Hub Lancashire, Morecambe, Floor 2 , 231 -233 Marine Road Central, Morecambe.

https://www.theconsultcentre.com

This site is an exploration of a multimedia approach to curiosity. My skills and ideas are very much "in development". I am a member of Lancaster Photographic Society and the West End Photography Club. I have also contributed to the Postal Photographic Club and the Exchange in Morecambe. I am available for interesting photographic and art projects.

I have various web presences:

• Behance
  
• Facebook
  
• EyeEm
  
• 500px
  
• Deviantart
  
• Flickr
  
• Tumblr
  
• Instagram
  
• Pixoto
  

Contact me by email

Brad Cheek

Singapore

Hong Kong

Western Australia

Donate a photograph to the Survivors of Torture Relief Fund auction

Supporting refugees to rebuild their lives in the UK 16th November 2017, Northern Quarter, Manchester. 

Are you able to contribute a piece of work for this auction? All of the proceeds will go to the charity. 

 See more about this auction here.  Any image of any size and of any subject would be appropriate. The image would be best mounted or framed, as this will increase the value in the auction If you wish to contribute to this auction, please give your donation to Brad Cheek by the 12th November 2017, or contact the organisers.

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Mikey and Emil are the Steppe Brothers. They are raising money for 2 charities, driving 10,000 miles from Paris to Mongolia in an ageing Nissan Micra. Follow their blog at https://www.facebook.com/SteppeBrothersMongolRally/

Also information at http://www.fissara.com/steppebrothers/

Sponsor the Steppe Brothers here

Find out more about the Mongol Rally 2017 here

See all the images here

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You can see the Steppe Brothers' silver Nissan Micra at the bottom of the screen on this video.

Good luck guys!