"I was born in the UK and worked as a graphic designer and photographer for most of my life and I feel privileged to have been doing what I love throughout my life and been paid for the pleasure.
I started to take photographs with a Box Brownie at the age of 7 or 8 years old, but the big revelation came when I was 10 and I watched my cousin develop a black and white print using a home made enlarger, 'that was it, I was hooked'.
The next momentous photographic event came on top of a mountain in Switzerland at the age of 13 when I suddenly thought how do I capture the whole scene. ‘I suddenly knew!’ if I took a series of photographs with my Kodak 127 then join the prints later that should work. It did! 50 years later I am still making panoramic photographs but now digitally though I do occasionally miss the Xpan panoramic camera which stands out among the mass of 5 x 4, roll film, 35mm cameras I have used over the years.
I have shot fashion, cars, musicians, products, hung out of helicopters, photographed air to air and covered the Silver jubilee of the British Queen, but I now work solely on my personal projects."
I bought my first Apple Macintosh, I think in 1985, and was amazed at how easy it was to use compared to other offerings.
I moved through updates and models, along the way bein…
First impressions
Very well made and designed.
Catadioptric lenses are an acquired taste and dropped out of popularity once the novelty of the doughnut-shaped out of focus h…
In my film days, I worked with 5x4 for product and architectural shots, 120 for fashion, portraits and landscape, 35 mm for everything else.
I mainly used Nikon and Leica starting…
