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I live in Derbyshire on the edge of the Peak District with my wife Francine and grown-up daughter Claire. The other daughter  - Helena -is working in London? I would like to thank Francine for buying me my first camera.  It was a Kodak Instamatic, but then she was on a student grant.

When I left college for a career on BBC Local Radio, photography became a keen pursuit, swiftly turning to a passion as I poured through photo mags and books, fired by the images of photographers like Charlie Waite, Franco Fontana, Ernst Haas and Michael Busselle as well as lecturers and photographers from my own club Derby City Photographic.

Eventually the passion evolved into a profession. After leaving Radio Derby in 2000 to pursue a freelance career involving broadcasting, film and theatre criticism and feature writing, photography eventually became another profession, mainly because of the digital revolution.