Born in Loughborough. Moved to Birmingham March 1998.

Interests :

Walking - Canals around Birmingham and in the Malverns

Music R&B, Soul, Jazz, Reggae. Classical Music mainly written after 1865 - Wagner, Mahler, Elgar, Sibelius, Shostakovich, Russian composers 19th/ 20th century, British classical music, BACH.

Reading - extremely varied inc. James Joyce (Ulysses Finnegans Wake,) Shakespeare, First World War poetry. Agatha Christie and other detective writers, Ian Fleming. Draw the line on 'biographies' of trashy so-called celebraties.

Many of my photographs are responses to and haved been inspired by music or literature