Biography

I live in Cambridge and have two children – Oliver who is 15 and Abigail who is 12. They have been with me at many of the locations shown in the portfolio pages. Following in his father’s footsteps, Oliver won a Rotary Club Competition at school for his own image titled "Dreams".

I have been taking photographs since buying a Canon EOS Rebel from the USA back in 2004. It was one of the first affordable digital SLR cameras and after a summer trip to the Bahamas and the USA I was hooked.

I upgraded quite soon to the EOS 1DS Mk2 to take advantage of the full frame sensor which attracted me as I preferred landscape work to any other. The APS sensor on the other Canon range meant my 17-40mm lens was actually more like  a 27-60mm Zoom. This was not getting me the results I wanted.

The test run of the 1DS was in China in 2006 when I visited lots of places including Tibet which still remains a place I will go back to as soon as I can. It is a great region of the world and the people simply fantastic.

Trips to Iceland, Kenya, Zanzibar, Provence and Morocco have followed some with the family and some on my own. All in fact with a slant on photography (not that they knew that of course).

In 2007 I went on a Photo Adventure workshop with Lee Frost which was one of many to follow including Dartmoor, The Lake District and in September 2008 a memorable trip on board the Elinca Yacht in the Outer Hebrides.

Current equipment includes the 1DS Mk2, a 5D Mk2 and modified 30D for infrared. A range of lenses and flash equipment and of course Photoshop CS4.

I have recently been fortunate enough to have an image of Dartmoor included in the Take a View 2008 book and also a Stonehenge photo included in the Take a View 2009 Book and exhibition in London throughout December.

I hope you enjoy looking through the images and please feel free to leave a comment in the guestbook.

Thanks for looking