Dad, collector of light - love storms and wild sea, reptiles, landscapes, fossils, and gadgets and insects and macro and wide angle and portrait shots and eye shots, prime lenses and my children. Like to be unobtrusive when snapping. Born again atheist! (sorry Mum - hope you don't read this!)

In terms of Flickr, I do enjoy real images. I don't understand how images created without a camera count as photography. Also images that have intrusive watermarks a frame or have been massively sharpened or had their dynamic range wildly exaggerated all make my heart sink! But in a world of billions of images who gives a damn anyway ?

I tend to reciprocate if I'm made a contact, but don't like to play the game of acquiring a shed load of contacts to boost my traffic and fav count. But I do appreciate real comments critical and otherwise about the process and art of photography.

The time I have to take to think about a photograph gives me time to smell the flowers - in other words to live in the moment to stop and look.

Be kind be happy!