About Me

My passion for photography began in 2007 with my first DSLR, a Nikon D40x. What started as a hobby quickly developed into a lifelong passion for wildlife and landscape photography, fuelled by a love of the outdoors, a desire to explore new places and the challenge of capturing those fleeting moments that make every encounter unique.

Over the years, photography has taken me to some of the world’s most remarkable locations, including Iceland, the Lofoten Islands, Alaska, the Yukon and Svalbard, while many of my favourite images have been created much closer to home in the UK. Whether photographing wildlife or landscapes, my aim is always the same: to create images that capture atmosphere, behaviour and those moments that tell a story, while working responsibly and with respect for the natural world.

As my photography has evolved, so too has my equipment. From the Nikon D40x, I progressed through several generations of Nikon DSLR cameras before making the move to Nikon’s mirrorless Z system. Today I photograph with the Nikon Z8 and Z9, supported by a range of professional lenses that allow me to pursue both wildlife and landscape photography in a wide variety of conditions.

This website showcases a selection of my wildlife and landscape photography from the UK and around the world. Images across my portfolio are available for editorial and commercial licensing, and I welcome enquiries regarding publications, commissions and collaborative projects.

My love of owls

My early days behind a camera were spent doing landscape photography.  Living on the south coast however and having been to some very beautiful parts of the world in pursuit of the hobby I was finding it increasingly hard to find landscapes to photograph that I could get excited and inspired by locally. 

Little did I know in December 2015 how all that would change.  I was visiting family in Nidderdale; a particularly beautiful AONB (area of outstanding natural beauty) up in Yorkshire and one morning on our way back from a walk I spotted my first Barn Owl sat on a post by the side of the road.  I had no idea what I was doing but pulled the car over and quickly got my camera out and at the time I was shooting the Nikon D810 and I had the Nikkon 100-400mm lens.  I managed to fire off 2 frames of the bird before it flew off back up the Moore.  This was the start of a fascination of all owls but particularly Barn Owls that would see me travelling around the world in pursuit of seeing and photographing these magnificent and mysterious birds.

The image to the right in the first frame I got; a heavy crop of what I now know to be a female owl sat on a fence post through a gap in the stone wall.