I took up landscape photography in the late 1980s using what was to be the first of several secondhand Canon A-1s. Today I use a Nikon D300 DSLR with two zooms covering a range of 12-200mm between them. My interest in severe weather developed in the late 1990s after viewing some storm-chasing websites from the USA and wondering if such things were possible over here in Mid-Wales. It turned out that they were indeed. Since then, I've recorded pretty much any type of weather you could imagine, all in this local area, although I've yet to bag a tornado on the ground - though I've seen the breathtaking damage that they can do - as I investigate damage-tracks for TORRO - the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation.

My work has featured on BBC Wales, at the National Museum of Wales, in Countryside Council for Wales and Forestry Commission Wales publications, in advertising and in newspapers such as the Guardian. Since around 2000, I've been running a surprisingly popular online weather-diary which has several hundred genuine visits a week.

As an organic development from that, I launched the Mid-Wales & Welsh Weather Image-Library back in 2007. This collection has been selected to represent the area in as many different ways as possible. It largely avoids the "nice day" images found on many postcards and in general there's usually some interesting weather going on in every shot, from snow to floods to thunderstorms and even the mysterious noctilucent clouds that exist at the edge of space - 80 kilometres up in the Mesosphere and only visible in the hours of darkness on summer nights. I do my best to add to it regularly - though of course that's entirely down to what the weather comes up with!