Welcome to my site on the fun side of making photographs.

I’ve been a photographer for over 40 years. I started as a keen amateur in my teens, shooting on film and progressing to digital in the early 2000s. I even ran my own photography business for 9 years shooting weddings and portraits.

The content here will be more about the why of taking photos rather than the how. There is more than enough content already created on technique and equipment. Much more important in my view is why you do it and what the images mean to you.

I will have information on cameras but none of these will be current equipment, pretty much everything I own is over 7 years old and many people would think they are well past their prime.

But I would argue against that.

It's so easy to chase the latest greatest humungous megapixel sensor with 20 stops dynamic range partnered with some crazy expensive 1.2 lenses. But if you take a rubbish photo with it, it is still a rubbish photo.

Some of my favourite images have been made on old kit.

Buying older equipment is also cheaper than jumping on the bandwagon for new kit, it’s also fun hunting down some esoteric product that went out of production a long time ago.

I would like to say I don't have Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS). But that would be a lie, I do have phases of buying kit, it’s just a lot older and more affordable.