Retired police forensic specialist with 44 years of police service in UK, New Zealand and Canada. I retired in 1999 from the Delta Police Department in British Columbia, after serving twenty years in the Forensic Services Section, leaving as the Supervisor.

I have been a photographer for over sixty years. My formal training was in 1961 at New Scotland Yard which covered every aspect of Police photography from crime scene work to Public Relations photography. I was fortunate that I was the sole student and that my instructor was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society as well as being a Detective Inspector. He not only imbued in me a detailed appreciation for photography as recording and investigative medium, but also a love of photography as a form of expression.

The following years saw me practice my craft in New Zealand, where the pressure of the sordid nature of my work prompted me to seek relief in Portraiture as a specialization.

A scholarship to the Canadian Police College in Ottawa, gave me the opportunity to meet the man whose work was an inspiration to me, Yousuf Karsh.

The rest, as they say, is history.