About Image Chasers...
Born in Ilford, but I have grown up and worked in Essex for most of my life, with the exception of a stint at University in Chester where I discovered what hills and mountains looked like, as well as welsh rain. I love photography, history, sport and travelling, which as hobbies all fit together really well.
As long as I can remember I have always had a camera in my hand, normally my dads, until he got fed up with me using up his film, he bought me a Pentax 110 Automatic with changeable lenses. Unfortunately the quality and telephoto distance was not great. As soon as I started work I got a proper SLR, an Olympus OM30 with two zooms giving me a range of 28-300mm. Wow, now I could start taking real sports pictures. Auto focus lenses soon took off with the new Canon EOS 650 and from then on, I was truly hooked and have since always used EOS’s, with the exception of a Fuji bridge camera when digital SLR’s were silly money! I now use the OM1 for travel and wildlife and the EOS R3 for sports and portraiture a combination that works for me!
I joined my first Camera club in 1988 and it proved to be a great environment to expand my photographic knowledge a well as encouraging me to experiment with genres and techniques. I also learnt how to process and print my own images in the darkroom as well as appreciate the qualities of black & white compared to colour. In 2022 I was invited to join the Beyond Group which has enabled me to take my photography to the next level. Join a camera club, it’s great fun and a terrific way to learn!
My camera has always been a portal which has enabled me to explore not just photography, but also discover and travel the globe in search of the next image. It has introduced me to friends across the world as well as at home…wonderful people who I probably would never have met otherwise. I love the challenge of capturing that moment in time which would normally be a fleeting instant often missed in a blink of an eye, such as a bird taking off or a canoeist being swamped by water. Most of all it is also an escape, those quiet moments of contemplation either searching for an image or sat in a hide waiting for something to happen does wonders for my overall well-being.
My photography is so much more to me than just taking the ‘competitive photograph’, in 2014 I started Image Chasers a website where I could exhibit the images that I enjoyed capturing but may never see the light of day in a competition.
If you would like to purchase any of the images on this website, for either private or commercial use, please use the contact page to let me know your requirements.
Photography links...
Additional Links:
- Egypt - Travels With My Camera - A free e-book on my Adventures in Egypt, published by Smashwords and available in all e-reader formats.
