About

Born 42 years ago in Reading, I have now settled down in Oxfordshire.

 My love of photography began in my teens, when I asked my mum for a camera for my birthday. She declined on the grounds that I was just ‘going through a fad’

 By the time I started work the ‘fad’ was still ongoing and my dad leant me the money so that I could buy my first SLR camera, a Praktica B100.

 My early photographs where mainly holiday snaps and trying to take a landscape photo I was happy with – something I am still trying for.

 In my mid twenties as my photography progressed I bought a Mamiya medium format camera and that good landscape still eluded me!

 2001 was when I got my first digital camera, which had its debut outing in New York weeks after 911. The images from that trip still fill me with a sense of sorrow but also awe and inspiration.

 My first digital SLR a Nikon d100 was purchased in 2004, and I still mostly took destination pictures and landscapes.

 Encouraged by my pushy girlfriend (now pushy wife), I joined my local camera club and went on a couple of landscape courses.

 As favours for friends and families I started photographing events and I discovered that I had a knack for people and portrait photography.

 Using my clubs internal competitions as the basis of my efforts, I planned and set scenes using my step daughter and her friends as models  and subjects.

 Since buying my present camera, a Nikon D3, in 2008 I have improved my portrait photography and my knowledge of lighting and effects as well as photographing sporting events and my first wedding.

 I am still searching for that elusive landscape and in November I am attending a course run by Charlie Waite in an effort to get my dream photograph.