About Me

I have had a lifelong interest in photography. First picking up a camera (my dad’s) as a schoolboy and taking it on fishing trips to record the catch. I still have some black & white prints of those unfortunate fish. Cycling the lanes of Derbyshire looking for new places to fish or explore, my friends and I acquired an interest in the countryside in all its glory, flora and fauna – a passion that I still have today.

Interestingly, I don’t have any landscape pictures taken at that time, that was to come later, our pictures were all of fish.

Later as an engineering apprentice I bought my first SLR camera, a 35mm Canon FTbn, along with a 50mm lens - it cost me a month’s wages! A great camera that I used for years, and still own to this day. On various motorcycles I travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles with it. I am still using Canon cameras, though they are of course digital, both full-frame and APS-C. These days I am as likely to be using a smart phone, and if I am honest in certain situations I prefer my phone to my Canon gear. Phone photography has been a game changer - the old cliché, your best camera is the one you have with you is certainly true here.