I take photographs for a living and for fun, always have done. I can still recall my first camera; I was about 12 years of age; learning to print with an old enlarger, chemical trays and the red safe light in the kitchen. Now it's all computers and digital files, with a whole new set of ways. I did the courses, the exams and with my degree certificate in hand thought that I was a fully-fledged photographer. Wrong! Experience was needed. Now, as an established photographer, I can be shooting an industrial plant in South America one week, a beauty shoot in the studio the next, on location for a campaign the following day, followed by a portrait of an international chef or chairman of a merchant bank the next. And in this time I've managed to combine my wealth of photographic knowledge, creativity and contacts with other specialists, to provide a consistently high standard across my disciplines of photography. To be continued…….