Just tuned 60 Welshman based on the beautiful Bristol Channel coast west of Cardiff. I am interested in industrial (particularly mining) landscapes and the transport infrastructure that occupies those landscapes. Being brought up in the Rhondda Valley I have seen 40 years of coal mine closures and industrial dereliction and now we are seeing the greening of the landscape again.

Oh by the way I am a professional Geophysicist / Engineering Geologist working at Cardiff University, so some mining and rock photos may also appear !!

I started my photography with a Kodak Instamatic back in 1972 then a Zenith EM in 1975 and progressed to a Canon AE-1 on my 18th birthday. For over 25 years I have used Canon AE-1 and A-1 equipment with numerous interchangeable lenses. In the late 1980s I dabbled with large format using a Yashica Mat 124G twin lens camera.

I mainly use Lumix FZ digital cameras for my professional work (because of the expense, dust and dirt issues), superb lenses but are a bit electronically noisy when you push them in poor light. I also experimented in work with Canon G1 and G6 cameras. Finally bit the digital bullet in 2012 and bought a Nikon D5100 now passed onto my eldest daughter and I bought a full frame Nikon D750 which I don't get out enough to use to its full capabilities. .

I also experiment with digital Infra-Red, HDR, Stereo anaglyph, 3D laser scanning and stereo air photography through my professional work. I am now experimenting with photogrammetry using a dji drone UAV and PIX4D software.

In 2013 I published a book "Barry the story of the yard and its locomotives" based on my steam locomotive collections. My other hobby is finding old rejected 35mm slides of trains and industrial landscapes and spending hours lovingly restoring them in HDR for people to enjoy on FLICKR. Presently I am working my way through digitising the railway collection of the late John Wiltshire. many of John's magnificent photos will gradually appear on my FLICKR site.

I believe photography is not about expensive cameras its about using your imagination and getting out there to capture the image that you have planned in your head. Although most of the time the image in your head is much better !