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Born in England, I emigrated to Australia in 1969 with my family (10 pound Poms as we were so affectionately known by the Aussies). As young as I was, I can still remember how I was terrified about having to learn a new language - silly me!

I initially lived in the sunny state of Queensland for the first 22 years of my new life, and have since moved to the more temperate state of Tasmania - the Island (or Apple) State.

Now heading into middle age, I am married with two kids (a pigeon pair).

My main source of income is as a Mental Health Nurse, which I have been doing for around 30 years now.

I have been into photography ever since my late teens, having been influenced by my fathers efforts at B&W photography - he used to develop his own stuff, which was always fascinating to me. I bought a few early, cheap SLR's (Praktika, Zenit[don't ask me why] and Pentax), before moving onto Nikons (FG-20 then FA), and finally switching over to digital when I purchased a D70, and later upgraded to the D300. I also owned a Pentax 645 medium format camera at one stage too.

My main interests are gig photography & landscape work, including urban landscapes, though I will try anything. My goals are to become more proficient in the use of the complexities of the digital darkroom, for whilst I think I can get composition and lighting right (most of the time), my abilities in Photoshop and the like are rather constrained to the more simple procedures such as Levels, Sharpening and Saturation. I would love to be much better at utilising layers, masks etc.

I am now, however, a keen advocate of Nikon Capture NX2, which has become an indispensible part of my workflow.

I have dabbled a little in HDR work, preferrring the subtler, more realistic results rather than the obvious "HDR" look which seems to be popular these days, though have now returned to more traditional "one-shot" shooting most of the time.

Current Kit

Nikon D800

Nikon D750

Nikon D700

Nikon D40X (for IR work eventually)

Nikon MB-D10 battery pack

Nikkor 20mm f2.8D

Nikkor 85mm f1.8

Nikkor 17-35mm f2.8D

Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8

Nikkor 18-200mm VR DX

Nikkor 50mm f1.8

Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 VR

Sigma 10-20mm

Sigma 105mm f2.8 EX macro

Sigma 150-500mm f5-6.3 (the Bigma)

Kenco extension tube set

Nikon SB-600 Speedlight x2 + flash gels

Manfrotto 055xprob tripod

Nikon Capture NX2

Photoshop CC

Lightroom CC

Silver Efex Pro 2.0

ProShow Gold 4