My interest in photography began in the early 1980's. I was on a road  trip in California, hitching lifts up and down the highways. Wayne Williams stopped to give me a lift. We became friends (and still are forty years later.) Wayne is a professional photographer. He encouraged me to take up this medium.

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Initially I concentrated on portraiture and street scenes working in monochrome and producing my own prints. I am more interested these days in photographing nature and landscape and the wild, uninhabited places where man's fingerprints barely touch the surface. I have been fortunate to have lived in the rain forest in the tropics and later, on the rugged west coast of Ireland. Living in these places, over the years, I have had the possibility to acquaint myself with the ever changing weather and light and try to distill these qualities into my images.

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I have exhibited my Irish landscapes here in Germany and in the United Kingdom. Following on from the German exhibitions, I published the

exhibition catalogue 'Imagining Ireland: Photographs of Ireland's Wild Places and their Beauty'. The photographs from the exhibition were donated to a social institution and are now on permanent display.

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I do not use Photoshop to make my pictures. They are as you see them. I also like to keep my camera equipment light and simple. The vast majority of my photographs are taken with a Lumix LX5 compact camera. The eye is more important than the size of your lens or the cost and specifications of the camera.