Music has the power to move our emotions and alter our mood. A finely crafted photograph can have the same effect. In my photography, I try to move people emotionally and inspire with awe, intrigue, excitement and beauty.

I am not trying to use photography to change or make any grand statement about the world, I simply aim to create an air of romantic beauty with an edge of the erotic.

Photography literally means drawing with light. And that is what I try to do. With the ready availability of cameras these days, anyone can record a scene but my work is an attempt to create an compelling scene, be it artistic or thought provoking, through the use darkness and light.

My real interest though probably started when, for my 13th birthday, I was given a 35mm camera, again by my father.   This set me off developing and printing all my own photographs. Not that this led me into studying photography or anything similar at university. My favourite subject at school had been chemistry. Mind you, that was in the days when you could put your finger into a beaker of Mercury to find out what a liquid 13.6 times denser than water felt like. You could flick any globules which may have been spilled, to-and-fro along the bench; as well as have first-hand experience of experimenting with phosphorus and nitrogen tri-iodide. And all without closing down the school while it was decontaminated!! My first choice career might have been chemistry or chemical engineering, but the prospect of working in one of the vast chemical complexes at the back-end of Warrington wasn't that appealing. (I'm sure Warrington is a very nice place these days, so please do not feel the need to write to enlighten me!)   Instead I decided on becoming a Civil Engineer. A decision which I never regretted as apart from being interesting it also enabled me to travel extensively around the world, indulging my photographic interest along the way.

So how did I come to swap a technical career for one more artistic? Well Civil Engineering done properly is very much a combination of art and science. Photography itself is certainly very much a combination of art and the technical understanding if the highest quality of photography is to be achieved. This is especially true in the current phase of changeover from traditional chemical techniques to digital processing. Seeing the photograph in one's mind is the artistic part, converting this into a perfect rendition of the imagined result can be technically quite demanding. But maybe one gets to a point in life when it is time for a change.   To all those requests I used to get along the lines of “would you do some photographs of me like that?” I finally have time to say yes!