I guess I'd describe myself as a fairly experienced (i.e. been doing it for years but not too seriously) amateur photographer. My dad taught me the basics as a kid, and I worked in a camera shop for a while after school. I was a keen SLR user in the 80s with an OM-10, but then decided that I wanted a small but good quality camera I could take everywhere, rather than something I had to lug around when I remembered (and of course never had with me when I wanted it). So when digital came in, I got a small Nikon, and then a Lumix TZ3. That started to develop a tendency to add grey rainbows to my photos, so I'm now using a TZ18.

We go cruising on the UK canals pretty often, so most of my best shots tend to come up when I have one hand on the tiller. Which makes intelligent point and shoot a must!

If anyone is interested in commercial use of these shots or others from my archive, I'm very happy to licence them for publication.