About me

My passion for photography first started in 2007 when I got my first DSLR – a Nikon D40x.  The more I learnt the more interested in the hobby I became and such did my lust for better gear and an ever-growing list of images I wanted to capture, places I wanted to visit and experiences I wanted to have.

In recent years I have visited some beautiful and remote parts of the world with several trips to Iceland, The Lofoten Islands in Arctic Norway, Alaska and the Yukon Territory in Canada and an Expedition to Svalbard to name but a few with more trips planned for the future.

As the years progressed; I have made various upgrades to my equipment.  A Nikon D7000 was next followed by the D7100, D810, D850 and D500 and then subsequently moving into mirrorless with the Z7, Z7ii and now the Z8 & Z9.

This site contains galleries of my work from some of the places I've visited around the world as well as images from the UK where I live.  If you would like to purchase prints of any of my images please get in touch using the contact form.  I am also available for commissioning of any work or specific projects.

My love of owls

My early days behind a camera were spent doing landscape photography.  Living on the south coast however and having been to some very beautiful parts of the world in pursuit of the hobby I was finding it increasingly hard to find landscapes to photograph that I could get excited and inspired by locally. 

Little did I know in December 2015 how all that would change.  I was visiting family in Nidderdale; a particularly beautiful AONB (area of outstanding natural beauty) up in Yorkshire and one morning on our way back from a walk I spotted my first Barn Owl sat on a post by the side of the road.  I had no idea what I was doing but pulled the car over and quickly got my camera out and at the time I was shooting the Nikon D810 and I had the Nikkon 100-400mm lens.  I managed to fire off 2 frames of the bird before it flew off back up the Moore.  This was the start of a fascination of all owls but particularly Barn Owls that would see me travelling around the world in pursuit of seeing and photographing these magnificent and mysterious birds.

The image to the right in the first frame I got; a heavy crop of what I now know to be a female owl sat on a fence post through a gap in the stone wall.