I've always liked photography, but since digital came of age my interest has expanded exponentially! I gave up bulky film SLRs with bags of kit for Fuji superzooms and love my X-S1 and F70EXR. Most recently I've bought the King of Superzoom bridge cameras, the Panasonic FZ1000.

I edit my photos with PaintShop Pro X8 and Aftershot 2, but often do little to what comes out of the camera.

I've had the honour of winning the Mold Camera Club Advanced Prints Photographer, 2011/12 and took second place in the Print of the Year competition 2012/13. I took first place in the club's Digital Projected Images competition 2014. Not bad from the user of an inexpensive camera against 74 members many of which use several £1,000s worth of kit!

I live in the small village of Cilcain in North Wales, just west of Chester and having retired from being Principal Trading Standards Officer for Flintshire County, I run a small web design business from home.

I love travel, walking in the splendid countryside around where I live, good food (I cook and like vegetarian food), good wine (favorites come from South America) keeping reasonably fit and the village pub!

I found the "countries I've visited" feature and had some fun remembering them all. Still plenty left, just wish I'd got serious about photography earlier!

Like any piece of art, photography is a subjective matter. I welcome constructive criticism of my photos. How else will I improve?

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