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I live in Yeovil, Somerset, having moved from north London in 1973. I am married and have four grown-up children.

I took early retirement in October 2009 from Yeovil College where, for six years, I ran an Outreach Centre and taught digital photography, web design and general I.T. I ran my own web design company for over ten years. My earlier career comprised 36 years in local government in various architectural, management and I.T. roles.

My main passions have always been an eclectic mix of walking, photography, nature, art history and militaria. I used to do so much long-distance walking and back-packing that I managed to seriously and permanently damage my heel – these days I can just about manage five or six miles before my heel gives in but I still manage to get ino the countryside several times a week. I have always loved photography – at one time I had eleven cameras and dabbled with portrait and wedding photography semi-professionally. The digital age reinvigorated my photography and I now take over 30,000 photographs a year – primarily of British wild flowers (during spring, summer and autumn) and military defence installations (pillboxes, etc. during the winter) and, of course, PUBS all year round!

I have written three books on bayonets, three on Italian Futurist art, one on medieval carved church bench ends of south Somerset and A Photographic Guide of the Taunton Stop Line – Second World War Defences in Somerset and Devon. I am currently working on two further books; a Photographic Guide to the Parish Churches of South Somerset and A Photographic Study of the Wild Flowers of Somerset and Dorset and .

Check out my website - wbdpublications.co.uk