His colour photographs have a distinctive painterly quality; his newest body of work, stunning, almost over-whelming black and white photographs of underground caves and natural grottos are at once awe-some and stifling. Looking at his significant body of colour works, viewers have a sense of both an earlier familiarity and Waddell’s pursuit of the perfectly composed and reference-rich image. That the richness is also rife with difficulty is a condition Waddell finds pleasurable.