ex engineer & teacher - hence the screen name jabot, (just another burnt out teacher).

I enjoy mainly landscape and nature photography - digital and film, particularly plants and flowers; and often use my landscape photos for the basis of watercolour paintings.

I am a keen freshwater angler and also enjoy good food, wine and single malt whiskey.

I live in South Wales, close to the A465 trunk road (the Heads of the Valleys), and consider myself to be a 'valleys' boy, having lived here for most of my life. Other interests include the social and industrial history of this area; ambling about the countryside; computers and reading.