About Me

Originally hailing from Billericay, Essex and now living down the road in Hutton, I've been taking photographs for about 18 years, and have owned an SLR since 1996, unfortunately after taking a two month trip to Australia, but just in time for my honeymoon!

Having trained as a Guitar maker at the London Guildhall University, I've since worked for the Fire Service and Police, but it wasn't until I decided to concentrate fully on photography and design that I felt truly comfortable in my working life.


Most of the images shown on this site were taken on colour slide film (Fuji Velvia or Provia), but the 2006 gallery, and the majority of my Image Library photos are digital, as I started using a Pentax Digital SLR in 2005.  The quality of the results from this first camera (Pentax *istD) were superb, but I have now upgraded to the new Pentax K10D, which is even better.

Quality is obviously very important to me; I use high-quality lenses by both Pentax and Sigma (EX range), and will usually use a tripod to ensure crisp detail and accurate focus.

Working with digital images allows me to exert ultimate control over how my prints look - safe in the knowledge that each subsequent print (made on Fuji Crystal Archive paper - not inkjet prints) will be identical to the first.

I am keen to exploit the benefits of computers for the production of photos - rarely to the extent of some image makers, but mainly to produce


black and white prints, or crop images to panoramic dimensions.  I also make panoramic images by 'stitching' together several, sometimes more than a dozen, individual photos.

This working pattern allows me to ensure the final print is as faithful a reproduction of the original scene as possible.

I am pleased to have good working relationships with various Country Parks and Nature Reserves as I specialise in this area - photographing the beautiful green spaces in my native Essex is not only a very pleasant way of spending my time, but I feel also beneficial in some small way to the population as a whole.

It promotes and highlights the beauty of our natural spaces and the very real need to take care of them.

Once they're gone, they're gone, and I would hate for my photographs to end up as a record of what we've lost.