After 20 years chartered surveying in London, Sydney and Weston-s-Mare - not necessarily in that order and not so much a career as a way of funding some travels: the Hippy Trail, the Gringo Trail, New Zealand - he saw that life was too short and, in the mid ’80s, turned to scribbling and snapping because it was more fun. He made a six-month perambulatory return to Australia followed by a few months getting to 10 of the 15 widely spaced and wonderful Cook Islands before eventually settling in East Anglia on which, these days, his keyboard and camera tend to concentrate although he is easily lured further afield if a subject is sufficiently interesting.
He lives in Cromer on the north Norfolk coast from where he contributes photographs and illustrated features to a range of publications on a mix of landscape, heritage and environmental topics. Lately, his work has appeared in The Countryman, Anglia Afloat, Fishing News, Craft & Design, Who Do You Think You Are?, The Lady and Suffolk/Norfolk Life. He has in the past written extensively for the commercial property press and for the Financial Times.
His photolibrary has medium format coverage of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire together with parts of Lincolnshire and Essex and selected subjects in other parts of the country. He gives talks on landscape photography.
He is the author/photographer of three books: East Anglia in Colour (1996, reprinted 2000, 2001 and 2004, ISBN 0-7110-2454-5), and East Anglia Through The Seasons (2002, ISBN 0-7110-2901-6), both published by Ian Allan/Dial House, and North Norfolk - The Heritage Coast (2004, ISBN 1-904136-20-6) published by John Nickalls Publications. He took the majority of the photographs in Newmarket, Town and Turf, (2002, ISBN 1-904136-05-02) also published by John Nickalls Publications.