I have been a full time professional photographer since 1985 and live in Kington, Herefordshire with my three children Lisa, Lewis and Natalie. After studying at Hereford Collage of Art and Design I took up a position as an assistant with a local photographer. Unfortunatley, after 12 months he closed the business down and I ended up working in the local factory. I was very determined to have a career in photography so set up my own part time freelance business working for local newspapers. This paid off as 18 months into this enterprise I was offered a full time staff photographers job with the Powys County Times. I moved to Welshpool where I covered all sorts of assignments for the newspaper, including numerous royal visits. After an enjoyable 22 months I was fortunate enough to be offered a staff photographers job on the Hereford Journal. This I accepted and I set about covering stories in Herefordshire and Mid Wales with relish. Two years into the job I was offered a post on the groups evening newspaper the Shropshire Star. I was keen and eager and picked up many tips from my fellow professionals. While working with the Shropshire Star I was lucky enough to be chosen to cover many assignments abroad including Champions League Football, a week with the Army and RAF in Cyprus and boxing in Germany. Events in early 2001 changed all this as I found myself a single parent looking after my daughters Lisa and Natalie and my son Lewis. I moved from the Shropshire Star back to the Journal series based at Hereford to spend more time with my children. I now take pictures for the Hereford and South Shropshire Journals and occasionaly help out on the Mid Wales Journal. I very much valued my time with the children, who are now all grown up, and have been helped along by my mum and dad, brother Steve and girlfriend Karen. Karen is a reporter with the Mid Wales Journal based in Llandrindod Wells, she is very committed and is doing an excellent job there. I have been lucky enough to have been awarded three Fuji merit awards, a runners up position in the Professional Photographer 2010 Portrait awards, a Birmingham Press Club photogrpahy media awards runner up, a runner up in Martini Royal Press Photography awards. I have had featured articles on me in Professional Photographer and People in Camera magazines.