Well, here I am. This is the obligatory ' About Me' section!

I enjoy wildlife photography, such as big cats, birds of prey and British wildlife, and more recently, football photography and am the resident photographer of my local club Shoreham FC, and really enjoying it.
I have also been lucky enough to have 'made the back page' and have had a number of footballing images printed in my local paper, The Shoreham Herald.
If you're ever in Shoreham on a Saturday, pop by and support the Musselmen! I'll be there on match days, so do say hi.

I've enjoyed photography for as long as I can remember. Mum and Dad had a Kodak Instamatic 126 when I was little. Then we had a Polaroid Land Camera - remember them? Dad got a Kodak Instamatic 300 which was 110 as the 126 finally met it's demise in the Lake District in about 1974. When I was about 10 or 11 I was given a 110 camera as a birthday present. Fairly sure it was a Kodak, but I think my sister also got one so we seemed to have loads of them around. I remember one with a fold out handle arrangement. Anyway, I couldn't put the damn thing down. Took pictures of the cat, the rabbit, roses in the garden. You name it, I took it. Drove my parents crackers. Films here, processing there. We used to take it to Boots or sometimes Packers which was the camera shop in town. Eventually I got one with a built in flash which was very grand. I remember seeing a Canon T90 in Packers once and drooling over it thinking that would be 'proper' photography.
Bought a disc camera once when I was 20. Snazzy new technology see. What a load of tripe. Quality was rubbish! Then got distracted with work and all the usual so it drifted for a while.
Skipped the APS fad - 35mm next stop! Had a soirée at motorsports at Silverstone with my Dad's Pentax Espio 140 which was quite fun (bet I've still got them if I looked hard enough). Had a couple 35mm pocket rockets for holidays (my Samsung AF Zoom 1050 I've still got - took a Shuttle Launch on it in '95). Finally bought a Canon EOS 500 in 1995. Bought the 28-90mm and 75-300mm lens and that was it, I was off again. Pictures everywhere I went. This time though, I finally decided to read and learn more about it, so started buying Practical Photography or Amateur Photography which were quite informative. Caught the upgrade bug and went to the 500N, then the 50E. Sold the 50E to a bloke who wanted to take snowboarding pictures. I had to fund the digital leap somehow.

Launched into digital with a Fuji 6900Z before my kids were born in 2001. Really magical day that was. Never forgotten that first moment, seeing that image on the back LCD straight after taking it. Fantastic. Upgraded to a Fuji S602 after that, then finally an EOS 10D after that. Had that for ages, really loved it. Then you guessed it, the 20D came along. Skipped the 30D, went up to a 40D.
Now here I am with a Canon EOS 1DMKIII, an EOS 1dMKIIN and a bag full of lenses. What does the future hold? Anybody's guess...