I live in Yeovil, Somerset, having moved from north London in 1973. I am married and have four grown-up children.

I took early retirement in October 2009 from Yeovil College where, for six years, I ran an Outreach Centre and taught digital photography, web design and general I.T. I ran my own web design company for over ten years. My earlier career comprised 36 years in local government in various architectural, management and I.T. roles.

My main passions have always been an eclectic mix of walking, photography, nature, art history and militaria. I have always loved photography – at one time I had eleven cameras and dabbled with portrait and wedding photography semi-professionally. The digital age reinvigorated my photography and I now take over 30,000 photographs a year – primarily of British wild flowers (during spring, summer and autumn) and military defence installations (pillboxes, etc. during the winter) and, of course, PUBS all year round!

I have written three books on bayonets, three on Italian Futurist art, one on medieval carved church bench ends of south Somerset and A Photographic Guide of the Taunton Stop Line – Second World War Defences in Somerset and Devon. I am currently working on two further books; a Photographic Guide to the Parish Churches of South Somerset and A Photographic Study of the Wild Flowers of Somerset and Dorset.

Check out my new website The History of Yeovil’s Pubs - the town with over 130 pubs!