Me photographed by my wife Jean

I retired at the end of 2005 from an academic career at a British University (initially a pharmacologist, evolving through director of studies for biosciences, then dean of health sciences, to become university pro vice-chancellor) and, alongside my present part-time role as chairman of an NHS Trust, I now pursue my passion for wildlife photography. 

I qualified as a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) in November 2006 with a panel consisting of ten landscape and wildlife images.  And, after submission to the RPS Nature board, I was successful in becoming an Associate of the Society in September 2007.   I was elected to a Fellowship of the Society in November 2009.   My FRPS panel consisted of twenty pictures of British birds displaying behaviours typical of their species, photographed within natural habitats.   Each of these panels appears on the subsequent pages (My FRPS Panel, My ARPS Panel and My LRPS Panel) of this website, accompanied where appropraite by a Statement of Intent.  Further information about the Distinctions offered by the RPS can be located at www.rps.org.

All the wildlife images on my website were taken in the UK, some in places such as Norfolk, the Highlands of Scotland, the Outer Hebrides and Shetland, but many in places closer to my home in Bedfordshire, often using the facilities of organisations such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds or the Wildlife Trusts.  During 2011 I hope to visit the Isle of Mull and North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, as well as the north Norfolk coast and the Isle of Skomer in Pembrokeshire, South Wales.  In addition, I am pondering about a trip abroad.

As an ex-academic, I continue to be interested in learning and teaching and if I might help in any way with your photography please let me know: I will delighted to help.