Biography

Born in Norwich in 1978, I was fortunate to have parents who valued time spent in the great outdoors. Although I didn’t realise it at the time, regular holidays in the Lake District and other areas slowly instilled in me a sense of feeling at ease with life when out in the landscape – a feeling that persists today.

My photographic interest didn’t really start until after university. On a five week post-university trip to western Canada I took along a small Canon APS film camera, and when I went somewhere, so to did the camera. The quality of the images wasn’t great, but when I got the prints back I realised that whilst many images were dull, others captured a sense of the landscape and brought the emotions of being their flooding back.

Why was this? What was it that made some of my images good, and others poor? A part-time voyage of discovery took place after this – I began to read books, look at other peoples’ images and continue to try and make photographic sense of the landscape around me. As the digital camera market began to grow I first purchased a decent compact, and then quickly moved to larger sensor digital cameras, with all the greater flexibility and quality that they bring.

Spend enough time out in the landscape and you get to see those special moments – the final rays of sunshine catching distant mountain peaks, or the first light of day turning the landscape into a misty wonderland. Being part of those moments is what makes me feel alive and at peace with the world.

The pages on this website - and the images within - are my attempt to share those moments. Browse for as long as you wish, enjoy your visit, and please check back soon.

Andrew.