I have been taking photography seriously since the first digital SLRs came out and prefer taking shots of animals in the wild.

My interests are all wildlife but particularly deer and birds and also dogs - both my own and the ones I look after . Therefore they are usually my photographic subjects.

I am very lucky to have passions and to be able to completely lose myself (and countless hours) in them. Taking pictures is one. By that I mean setting up my equipment, fiddling with it, re-fiddling with it, trying to remember to check for everything and then attempting to take that image which is perfect in my head but never quite turns out like that in the camera! It's fun to keep trying though....

Oh, yes, and of course, all the while not missing that 'once-in-a-lifetime' opportunistic shot!

I enjoy giving and receiving comments from other Flickr members and seeing lots of new photos each day from my contacts but above all I get plenty of inspiration from some brilliant photographs they produce which encourage me to strive to improve my own pictures.....