I first started photography when I was living in Johannesburg, owned a Canon AE1 camera

and had nothing much to do in the evenings, so I joined the Johannesburg Photographic

Society. Within two years, I won the prize for the best dog picture, so I must have learnt

something. Now living in Bournemouth and retired, I joined the Parkstone Photo Club as I

had nothing much to do in the evenings. Prior to that, I moved around a bit and worked as

an engineer, bringing up three children (actually, I think my wife really did that) who have

produced four grandchildren between them.

I used Canon cameras for many years, both film (AE1) and digital (D600, D6 and R) with

more lenses that I could comfortably carry. In recent years, I have moved to the Olympus

micro 4/3 system, and I appreciate its smaller size and technical capabilities. I tend to

photograph anything that I can see, although generally not that very well. The majority of

my images tend to be landscapes, as the countryside generally does not move when I am

photographing it and does not answer back. When not in Bournemouth, I try to be

somewhere else in the world, preferably remote, looking for something new to photograph.

I probably have the largest selection of whale, penguin and bear photographs in the club

and would welcome newcomers to the club to see if they have more.

As well as photography, my other hobbies are buying and eating short-dated food with

yellow stickers without actually poisoning myself and, more recently, making excruciating

and irritating noises on a ukulele.