I'm a 68 year-old retired entomologist (bugs!) living on the Isle of Man and Malaysia. My professional expertise is the Sternorrhyncha suborder of the Hemiptera, including whiteflies and aphids.

I was for many years an ardent railway enthusiast (trainspotter, if you prefer) and this I have something over 1000 rail photos here, mostly from the 1960s to 1980s.

For many years I used Minolta manual SLRs (SRT 100x, SRT 303b) but in the digital age have only used my little Nikon Coolpix 4500 swivel camera, and I have pretty much ceased photography nowadays. I have yet to scan most of my files-full of transperencies for digital use but I am beginning the task on a fairly ad hoc basis but realistically I am unlikely to continue the job for health reasons.