A PERSONAL HISTORY - OR, HOW I BECAME A PHOTOGRAPHER

  For me photography has always been an extension of other interests. As a young boy I was introduced to the delights of trainspotting by my father, and during the mid 1960's - my early teenage years - I rushed around the country ticking off the last giants of the steam age, more often than not rusting away in sidings. Seeing a  working steam engine was a powerful experience for a still small boy, however, and my first pictures were perhaps an attempt to capture those feelings in a visual sense.