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Deceptively amiable misanthrope. After a brief stab at being a grease-monkey in a tin-can factory, a spell in college gave me what little I can now remember about typography, off-set litho printing, darkrooms and rotring pens. If only I'd paid as much attention to all that as I did to playing in bands, running the college disco and organising the end-of-term dances. I've been in and around the music business for most of the last 30 years, 22 of them spent working for a "major label" (remember them?).

My interest in photography goes back to when I was a lad, back in the day when boys wore short trousers and long socks. My dad bought me an Ilford "Sporti 4", which took 12 pictures on a 127 roll film. It had two settings: "Cloudy" and "Sunny", and didn't need focussing. It later dawned on me that the convenience of not having to bother focussing was inextricably linked to the inability to take pictures in anything less than bright daylight - unless one wished to dabble in the mysteries of single-use magnesium-filament flash bulbs (I didn't). I've come on a bit since then.

As you'll see from my photos, I don't have a speciality. Jack of all trades (you know the rest...). A good picture is a good picture. Technical perfection interests me less than a picture that says something to me (even if I don't know exactly what that may be at the time), captures a mood or a moment - or just hits me in the eye with colour and / or action. Having said that - if all or some of the above is present and correct, I'd rather have the technique nailed than not...

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