Given a half frame 35 mm second hand camera by my father in 1970 which took 72 photos on one roll of normally 36 exposures, I immediately caught a serious virus. One that gets into the blood, one you never get rid of - photography! Till I got the printing bill! This expensive hobby, meant an after school job financing my habit. I soon discovered one could buy bulk film holders and 400 meter rolls of Tri X. Film was then so cheap I gave up my after school job and started shooting everything and anything every spare minute, and spending hours and hours in the darkroom.

At 18 years of age, Jeau Rondeau Studios, Milson's Point, Sydney, employed me as a young camera enthusiast, in the position of an Assistant trainee photographer. Three years with the French connection, and still not able to speak fluent French, they'd had enough of me, and I began to move through various other studios around Sydney, mainly connected with advertising work, thus learning different sides of my trade. DIgital photography hadn't even been thought of then; oh those hours and hours in the darkroom!

Times have changed. We move on in an ever more technically complicated age trying to master our interests. But no matter all the fancy technology - its all about the light!