As for photography, I've been using SLR cameras since I was at university (alas a few years ago now) but I've only recently got into serious wildlife photography on the back of the digital revolution. At first this was using the technique of digiscoping, whereby images are obtained by mounting a compact camera onto a birdwatching telescope. I obtained some quite reasonable images (a couple are included in the birds section) but the technique is a bit hit & miss for me and flight shots are out of the question. If you'd like to visit my digiscoping site click here.

And so it was in 2005, fuelled by yet another mid-life crisis, I spent my savings on the proper kit for the job. What I hadn't anticipated was just how much of an obsession it would become; yet somehow it makes me feel as though I'm really connecting with the wildlife and preserving something of that brief encounter for ever. Indeed if you look at my images of dragonflies & damselflies you'll see detail that it would be almost impossible to observe in the field.

I seem to have amassed a huge number of images in a relatively short space of time, most unseen by anyone other than myself - until now that is! It was my long-suffering wife who persuaded me to put this website together.