Born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1969 and now living in Cambridgeshire.

I started out in photography at a very young age using a little black plastic toy camera which took 35mm film. Everything about it was plastic and the photo quality was... interesting. But I loved it and used it to take candid shots of my friends and family.

My first SLR was a Russian built, fully manual Zenit-E, which was given to me by my partners step-father. It was made of metal, weighed about 3/4 of a ton, and had a real cloth finish. I had it for years and it took great photos.

I then moved on to a Pentax MZ10 SLR, fully electronic with AF - you can imagine how fast this was after the Zenit! I still have this camera, although I have not used it for many years.

The first time I experienced Digital Photography properly (excluding my Sony DV Camera) was with my brothers Nikon Coolpix 3100. I thought it was fantastic and wanted a Nikon for myself. By the time I got round to upgrading to digital the Nikon Coolpix 4300 was available. A very neat, excellent quality, feature packed creative-compact - I had loads of fun with this and still do.

After dropping my poor Nikon in Spain, and waiting for it to be repaired, I decided I wanted to break free from the constraints of a creative-compact. I had seen and used a Fuji Finepix S7000, and knew that, as I could not afford a fully-fledged D-SLR, the S7000 would be a great step.

After hunting around for a cheap S7000, I learnt that Fuji were soon to launch the Finepix S9500, and after reading about its features I was smitten! I pre-ordered my S9500 right away.

The S9500 is one of the best cameras I have ever used. Being cheap, packed with more features than you can shake a stick at, and produces excellent quality photos. The twist-barrel zoom made all the difference too!

It was with this camera that I won a Fuji photo competition with. The theme was "Abstract" and my photo was of a collection of puddles that had settled on the cover of our garden table. I took the picture from a bedroom window looking down on it from above. The prize was Adobe Photoshop CS2, which I was over-the-moon with!

The Fuji also got me in to doing photos for Air Gunner magazine after the editor asked if he could use some of my photos he had seen on a website that I had taken during a shoot at my local club.

I am now using a fully-fledged D-SLR in the form of a Canon 30D, which I use to continue my work for BBC Cambridgeshire "In Pictures" and Air Gunner, as well as other freelance work I do. I have also been lucky enough to do some photos for "Artists & Illustrators" magazine, for the front cover of Issue 260, May 2008 edition. The front cover photo can be seen here...