Dentists. Nobody much likes dentists, but I won't hear a word said against them. The first two prints I ever sold were bought by a dentist, and I've just sold seven more to another one!
Read MoreCapture the Moment!
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Putney Artists' Open House 2015
I just wanted to thank everyone who came to my Open House exhibition over the last two weekends. It was nice to be able to show off my work and tell a few stories about taking the pictures, and I hope you enjoyed the exhibition.
Read MoreThis Is Africa
People generally use TIA as a shorthand to explain the everyday frustrations of power cuts, traffic jams and endless delays, but it should also be a cry of wonder.
Read MoreDon't poke the bear!
Twenty years ago, I was staying with my best friend Mark in Golders Green and found myself chatting with his mother. She was in her seventies, but I politely asked if she'd been anywhere nice recently.
"Yes," she said, "I've just come back from watching the bears catching salmon in Alaska."
That'll teach me...!
Read MoreCambridge
Royal Ascot 2015
I went to Royal Ascot on Friday and took a lot of pictures of beautiful people, but I do apologise if I didn't get round to you and your friends!
Read MoreExhibition at the Norman Plastow Gallery
My travel and wildlife photography exhibition is over now, so I just wanted to say a big thank you to everyone who came along. I hope you all enjoyed the show!
Read MoreAthens
I just spent two weeks in Greece preparing a Greek boy and his twin sisters for 10+ and 12+ entrance examinations at a school in England.
Read MoreEvery picture tells a story: Red Xmas tree star with bokeh lights
I live in an Art Deco mansion block in Putney, and every year the porters put a Christmas tree in the entrance hall.
Read MoreEvery picture tells a story: Close-up of golden eagle head with catchlight
I’m a photographer (among other things), and this is the first of a series of posts about my favourite photographs. I’ll tell you how I took them and break down the shot into the idea, the location, the equipment, the settings, the technique and any post-processing.
Read MoreCold Turkey
Pool, beach or hammock? Hammock, beach or pool? Hmm…
Read MoreAnd then it all went bear-shaped…
Beautiful girls are like polar bears: they’re hard to find, and you try to get as close as you possibly can before they turn their backs and walk away.
Read MoreHong Kong? Phooey!
When they built Hong Kong, they put the sun in the wrong place. It’s always either behind a building, hidden by a cloud or on the wrong side of the island to see a decent sunset.
Read MoreLost in translation
My best experience in Moscow could easily have been my worst.
Read MoreBack in the USSR
Before I went to Belarus, I was warned it would be like going back to the Soviet Union: brutalist architecture, statues of Karl Marx and a hankering after the Communist era.
Read MoreA photographer’s bucket list
I make lists. I make lots of lists. Even when people tell me not to, I still make lists.
Read MoreTigers and temples
When you tour India with a beautiful Dutch blonde named after a Norse fertility goddess, it’s bound to be an adventure…
Read MoreYosemite and Yellowstone
If they ever made it into a film, they’d cast Minnie Driver as Andreanne, Steven Spielberg as Denni, Matthew Modine as Stefan, Julie Benz as Hannah, Sophie Marceau as Alyona and Matthew McConaughey as Andrew.
Read MoreNorthern exposure
Once you start ticking off the things to do on your bucket list, it’s hard to stop, so – inspired by my trip to Kenya – I signed up to go to the Icehotel in January to see the northern lights.
Read MorePicnic on Mount Kenya
During the Second World War, an Italian named Felice Benuzzi decided to escape from a British POW camp in Nanyuki, Kenya.
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