Photography was always a hobby. I took pictures in my spare time, printed b&w in my kitchen-darkroom, and did a few weddings, but never thought I would escape from the suit.

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Landscape always was a favourite, but equally I enjoy documenting and have a few long term projects like Speakers Corner. In recent years I’ve been photographing the historical re-enactment scene – I read history at Cambridge.

Most pictures are available as individual fine art prints and I do a few weddings, portraits, and other commissioned work.

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Working in the printing industry, I first saw Photoshop around 1990 but I took the slow “wet and dry” route to digital – gradually scanning more film and doing more adjustment on computer. When I switched to digital in 2003, I mentioned it on my blog which led to writing my first book on digital b&w. I’ve now written 7 books, 6 published and another due out in early 2010.

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More recently I’ve been lucky enough to devote my time to photographic work, especially digital asset management and improving clients’ Photoshop, Lightroom and iView/Expression Media productivity, and designing web sites.

My murky past includes many years as a chartered accountant, then in implementing financial IT systems, so I’m very hot on Excel, OLAP, integrating systems and migrating data between databases. But shush – I don’t want to ruin the image!