This is me in Iceland in 2017. Travelling there in a campervan by ferry from Denmark via the Faroe Islands was an amazing experience, but the day that really changed my life was in February 2014. An English graduate, I’ve had contrasting careers in publishing, furniture making and latterly music promotion. With a severe and deteriorating hearing loss, the sudden onset of cataracts in 2013 was devastating. I could neither hear nor see properly. However surgery was my salvation. I had the first cataract operation in Bristol and went to my daughter’s house there to recuperate. When I took the bandages off a few hours later a fantastically magical world of colour was revealed!
It did not take me long to decide to give up on the world of sound and put all my creative efforts into the visual world. Since my enduring fascination with the natural world was also deepening, I decided I was going to learn how to be a wildlife photographer. A few years later I began volunteering with the ranger team at National Trust Dinefwr and at RSPB Dinas, and now specialise in watching and recording the wildlife in these special places.
In the last few years I’ve made many trips around Britain and France and got to know several special places in Wales, England and particularly Western Scotland. I have a particular love of islands and have visited all the Welsh islands and got to know the Small Isles south of Skye. In France I have made many visits to my daughter’s house near Mayenne.
I have tried several different cameras and lenses, learning a little more with each one until I settled on a Sony A7R4 60 mpx full-frame camera and a Sony 100-400 GM lens. I also use a x1.4 extender lens and two small Samyang lenses: 18mm f2.8 and 35mm f 1.8. With these I can also indulge my love of landscape and architecture.
I’m quite proud of what I have achieved so far and I hope you like what you see here.
