From being given a Box Brownie camera when I was six, my passion for photography has developed over the years. Now, forty years later, the last 15 years have seen me take my photography more seriously, devoting more time and resources to it. Currently I sell photographs directly to magazines and through a photo library to a variety of markets, including holiday brochures and travel books together with fine art sales. I continue to work as an engineer.
I now concentrate on landscape subjects especially the Peak District National Park near to my home for the last 20 years. The majority of these images are taken with a Pentax 67 medium format camera, using Fuji transparency film. For a recent trip to New Zealand and Australia I took a compact Ricoh GX100 digital camera, my first move serious move in to digital technology.
In March 2005 I held my first one-man exhibition ‘Views of the Peaks’ at Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, then in June 2006 'In & Around Sudbury Hall' showing hidden locations in the hall and the landscape within 5 miles, all the photographs taken in the proceeding 11 months.
My work has previously been displayed as part of the Leeds Castle, British Landscape competition and exhibition 1997, in which I was the overall winner, also in the Keele University annual Three Counties photography competition and exhibition. In 2006 I was the overall winner of the Buxton Arts Festival competition, and in 2007 winner of the Uttoxeter Flourish Arts Festival.