About a year ago, Flickr introduced me to the London-based photographer/designer, Pete Gardner, whose work has become something of a personal muse. That muse says this about himself:

“Pete Gardner is a professional studio based photographer in London, UK. With over twenty five years experience, he specialises in creative product and concept photography for design and advertising clients. His passion is his personal work, which concentrates mainly on the urban environment and the effects of light and shadow he observes whilst walking around the streets of the city.”

Passion for the urban environment really comes out in Pete's photos, which really are a glass showcase of urban angles and shadows. My own views of the urban scape changed greatly as a result of Pete's work.

But no manner of carefully or uncarefully worded essay comes close to illustrating both Pete's genius and his madness. Only his photos do that.