My images have three distinct strands

- more or less straightforward photographs

- photo-based graphic design works

- landscapes; these I would prefer to call 'pictures' rather than 'photos'.

Although I use a camera ~ not a particularly sophisticated one ~ I don't take much time with the original shots, regarding them more as the sketches an artist would make.

Once back at my computer I get to work on the picture, trying to make it as I saw it, and not as the camera saw it, as I would if using paint on paper.

The inspiration for these pictures comes partly from those posters that were displayed (many years ago) in railway carriages.

I find inspiration too from Alfred Bestall's Rupert the Bear vignettes and Roland Hilder's illustrations for Shell Nature Guides. I used to love looking through the set I had when I was ill in bed as a child; that's probably why I get as many animals into my pictures as realistically possible, like those Nature Guide pictures, only they were a bit unrealistic. They fed my imagination though.

Oh, and the wonderful landscapes to be found in the Scottish Borders and North Northumberland. I need hardly travel more than ten miles from my home for a lifetime's worth of pictures.