A keen photographer for a number of years now, I began using a Minolta 35mm Camera with an inexpensive Minolta 28mm lens I managed to pick up in a sale. Oh how I used to wait with anticipation for that little box of transparencies to come through the letterbox after processing – can’t imagine waiting 2 weeks to see my digital images now!

In 2005 I purchased a 6mp Vivitar compact & discovered digital photography, a few of my early posts were taken with this camera. This rekindled my interest in taking photographs and later in 2007 while recovering from spinal surgery I bought my first DSLR.

Walking being a serious part of my recovery, I married the two together, got bitten by the shutterbug once again and began to take photography serious once more.

My image cataloging and RAW processing is done in Adobe Lightroom with any tidying up completed in Photoshop. I love all kinds of subject matter but my favourites are landscapes & nature.

Several images can be licensed through...

www.gettyimages.co.uk/

And here...

Stock photography by Kevin Palmer at Alamy

Some of my favourite quotes from renowned photographers,

"Location finding isn't rocket science, its just about getting mud on your boots.” ~ David Noton

"Light glorifies everything. It transforms and ennobles the most commonplace and ordinary subjects. The object is nothing, light is everything.” ~ Leonard Missone

“I put light at the top of my list of priorities. I plan for it, appreciate it, I react to it. Photographically I live by it. All my technique is about working the light” ~ Joe Cornish

“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

“I find the single most valuable tool in the darkroom is my trash can.” ~ John Sexton

“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” ~ Ansel Adams

My personal favourites...