About Me

I'm an enthusiast photographer; Northern Irish by birth, and living in Cheshire, England.

I've been taking photographs most of my life, starting with snapshots on a Kodak Vecta box camera inherited from an aunt when I was very small. Back then, I had a vague sense that I liked some of my photographs better than others and that 'taking a picture' could be creative, but success was very much hit-and-miss.

I carried on taking pictures as I grew up, moved to England to study, got married and had a son. I 'advanced' through a series of film cameras: Instamatics, compacts and an SLR (a Pentax ME Super). But the arrival of digital — about twenty years ago for me — helped me both to put more into photography and to get more out of it.

It got me thinking about what I was doing: why I liked some of my photographs better than others and how I could make photography creative. I could immediately look at what I had captured and identify how to improve an image I wasn't happy with. I could 'process' my own pictures in a way I couldn't with film. I like to think that I'm now (in the time-honoured phrase) making images instead of just taking them.

The technology is a means to an end. But, in case you're interested, I mainly use Nikon cameras and lenses, along with the occasional compact (currently Sony), and an Adobe/DxO digital darkroom.

Of course, success is still hit-and-miss :-) ! But this website is an opportunity for me to share a few of the images, old and new, that I've produced and am comparatively happy with. I hope you enjoy them.