About the photographer

Like many a keen amateur photographer my first photographs were taken as a record of holidays and family events using a simple (but effective) ‘point and shoot’ camera. But I eventually started to take an interest in photography for its own sake and, having been fortunate enough to live in the countryside for much of my life, I usually combine my photography with an equal love of getting out and about in the open spaces. I am now based on Salisbury Plain, a few miles north of the historic cathedral city of Salisbury in Wiltshire, UK.

I have tried my hand at all sorts of photographic subject matter over the years, but my photography is now almost entirely landscape orientated. I prefer to photograph in black and white as I feel that landscape is often more about shapes, patterns, light and shade than it is about colour, but I do occasionally swap to colour where I think the subject needs it.

I have owned a digital SLR since the late summer of 2005 and a number of pictures on this site were produced using this camera. I have continued to use film cameras alongside digital and, having passed through the initial novelty of the convenience of digital (which is great), I find myself being drawn back to using film which in my view still offers greater depth and tonal range. I feel that I will continue to use film as long as it remains fairly readily available – which I hope will be a long time yet.