My entire life has centred around transport and industrial history related interests and for most of this period photography has been an inseparable associated interest.

The focus of transport interest has changed over the years and today shipping subjects account for the majority of my photographs. However, in recent years I have started revisiting other areas.

A bakalite Brownie 127 camera was the first camera I used around 1964. The following year I received a my own more upto date model which at least had film / shutter release interlock preventing unwanted double or even triple exposures!

By 1969 I had the loan of my grandfather's Praktica Nova 1 SLR and as I reached my teens in the early 1970s I had become hooked on slide photography using mainly Agfa CT stock. A vast collection of slides being taken through to 2002 when I switched to digital photography full time.

A succession of cameras mainly Rollei, Contax and Leica have followed my Grandfather's long worn out Praktica Nova.

Since 1995 I have run the Irish Sea Shipping web site at http://www.irishseashipping.com which features many of my ship photographs.