My first love when I was a child was drawing, I would scribble constantly, much to the annoyance of my mum. I had my appendix removed when I was 10 years old; my older brother bought me my first Spider-Man comic to keep me entertained while I was at home. I then spent the next few years reading and drawing comic superheroes. When I matured (tongue firmly in cheek) around the age of 16 when I suddenly discovered Salvador Dali and Surrealism, which influenced my drawings and thoughts, I was able to combine my style of drawing and create surreal illustrations, I would have heads morph out of feet, angels firing bolts of fire flying around the world (I was only 16 years old).
 

At the end of my teens, I started working in an advertising studio in Central London called JMA; my boss Julian was a keen photographer, suddenly another world opened up to me. I bought my first camera (Yasika FX3) treating it as my new sketchpad, lucky enough to have access to a darkroom at work, so taking photographs, processing & printing my own photographs became my new love and passion.
 

Cut to 30 years on, and I am still in love with photography even
if I don't always have the time, and even if the process has moved on. Instead of a dark room, we now have Lightroom & Photoshop, which I embrace with both hands as the tools of the trade, but the principles are the same, no amount of postproduction
can compensate for bad composition and boring photography.
 

So here on this site are some of my more recent photographs.
I am starting a City & Guilds Level 3 evening course, so I will be adding some more photographs, soon.