I’ve always had an artistic streak, but I couldn’t draw or paint for shit, and it certainly never came out in my early music career. It all started to make sense when I picked up a battered old Pentax K1000 in my early teens and began the journey into photography.

Ever since then I’ve been hooked on an art form that’s evolved massively with technology, yet somehow never lost its magic. There’s still nothing quite like watching an image slowly emerge in the developer tray — I count myself lucky to have grown up in the darkroom, long before the digital age completely took over. I do miss the enlarger sometimes; playing with filters and dodging or burning by hand had a certain beauty you don’t quite get with Photoshop or Lightroom.

That old Pentax is still around somewhere, taped together after taking a fall at a press event I was shooting. I flirted with both Canon and Nikon before finally settling with my Fuji XT-3, which converted me to mirrorless in 2020 - no looking back now.

My bookshelf holds the classics - Cartier-Bresson, Adams, Newton - alongside well-worn black-and-white manuals, while my Mac is filled with the works of modern-day photographers. I’ve always sat somewhere between ‘old school’ and HDR, drawing inspiration from just about everything: wildlife (my first love), fast cars, iconic bridges, experimental macros, interiors - and, more recently, the fast-paced thrill of capturing sports action shots of my boys and their mates. There’s something raw and rewarding about freezing those fleeting moments of energy, determination, and joy.

I don’t claim to have one unique style - I simply enjoy exploring, experimenting, and creating as I go. Give me a camera, a tripod, and a city street with no plan, and I’ll find something. As Robert Adams said: “No place is boring if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”

ENJOY THE IMAGES