My father was an amateur photographer, with little equipment or money to expand his interest, but he used to have occasional sessions in the temporary darkroom in the bathroom, so I learnt a little about the joys of producing prints. When I was 21, my parents very generously bought me a second-hand Pentax Spotmatic, a vast improvement on the Box Brownies and similar. That inspired the following years, at architecture college and beyond.

My photographic interests are wide, concentrating at times on live music and dance (under the name ‘giglens’), architecture, abstract, nature, sport ... in fact almost anything! Colour and monochrome, PDI and print, individual images and panels, with varying degrees of basic input of Photoshop.

Whilst I do enter competitions, I recognise the impossibility of rating anything which can be regarded as Art - is Rembrandt better than Van Gogh, Brandt better than Bailey? So, qualifications and awards, while good for the ego, are the result of somebody’s personal preferences. Consequently, my ambition is to produce images which I like myself and hope that others might.