About

Hi... I'm Martin...

I've lived in the North East most of my life with a bit of time out to working in the South of France having what can only be described as a whale of a time. I take most things in good humour and always have that annoying optimism and see the good bits in the worst areas. I'm a bit of a joker and rarely have a serious head on and try to bring this quirkyness to my photography. The same as a painters emotion flows through the brush, my personality comes through in the pictures that I take. 

I don't know why I'm not called Martin Lynn Photography following the same profile as other photographers, maybe I got sick of people ringing up asking to speak to Lynn Martins. The name Carve came from my other passion, surfing.  I was injured and hadn't surfed for months and myself and a former colleague were talking in the office and somehow I decided if I had a photography business that's what it would be called. Ironically, I don't often combine surfing and photography, if I'm on the beach taking pictures of surfing, it means that I'm stood in front of good waves that I'm falling off, erm...I mean riding them.

So that's me, well a small part of me, and how I came to be 'Carve Photography'..... see you soon!