I first started taking pictures while quite young. A good deal of water has gone under the rocks since then, but photography is still one of my great passions.

In the early days I would take pictures of anything that stayed still long enough, and a few things that didn’t. I suppose I was determined to learn all I could in the glow of my new enthusiasm.

To learn more I read books, I went to clubs, night school, college, and I even worked as a photographer for a while. I learnt one thing more than any other during all this time.

The most important thing about making good images is to be in the right place at the right time, point the camera in the right direction and get the picture.

Everything else is just technique.

I learned my craft, loved to push the boundaries of what the medium could do and I gained a reasonable reputation as a monochrome printer.

In the last few years photography has undergone a revolution. The days of film and chemistry are now quite possibly numbered. I must confess to a slight sadness, they were interesting times but such is life, we move on.

The photographic heir apparent seems to be digital and electronic.

I like to immerse myself in the landscape when I’m working. Some of my best work has come from times when I have been low impact camping in the wilderness and such trips are another of my passions.

These days I shoot digitally but I still use film occasionally if it is better for the job.

I still have a darkroom but most of my output is now produced with a computer.