David was born in Buckinghamshire in 1955, and then moved to Lancashire in 1964. His first interest in photography was at the age of fifteen, where in the basement of his parents' house he experimented with developing and printing black & white films. 

The first camera that he could call his own was a Minolta SR7 which he still has today, this was followed by a couple of Minolta SRT101 camera bodies and an array of different lens. These cameras were to be the main tools of his photography up until 1999, and he still uses them on rare occasions.

His initial interest was in Landscape Photography, up until the early 1980's when along with a home made variable power flash head, and subsequently a selection of purchased studio flash heads and studio equipment his main area of interest switched to Portrait and Glamour photography, shot both in the studio and outdoor on location.

Up till this point in time he was totally self taught from books, magazines and plenty of practice, but a desire to spend time with, and to learn from, other photographers led him to join a photographic club, and to enrol at a local college on a City & Guilds Photography course. The 'Colour Photography' course he wanted to do was full and he was reluctantly talked into taking a 'Black & White Printing' course. After a couple of years David finished taking evening classes at the college and in the process acquired seven City & Guilds certificates in various photographic modules, the most enjoyable of which was that first, reluctantly taken, Black & White printing course.

This resulted in a period where his photography for a good many years went back to being almost exclusively Black & White, covering subject areas such as portrait, still life, and his old favourite Landscape.

Space being a premium in the family home, and with two growing son's, the studio space and darkroom (in the spare bedroom) had to go, this resulted in him going back to mainly Landscape Photography shot in colour.

In 1999, David took his first tentative step into digital photography when he purchased a Fuji MX2900. This small 2.3 megapixel camera produced some amazing images, but the limitations of the minimal amount of manual controls on the camera soon led him to upgrade to a Sony DSC-F717 digital camera, and more recently to a Konica Minolta Dynax 7D.

All his work is now shot on digital cameras, although he still occasionally uses his old film cameras, mainly when experimenting with astro-photography.

Much of his recent work is stitched panoramas produced from several idividual digital images joined together, with the majority of the prints available on this site having been produced in this way.

Today he is usually to be found hill walking with his camera, younger son Michael and elder son Stephen, who has also developed a keen interest in photography. His favourite places to be found, trying to capture that 'magical something' are the Isle of Skye, the Outer Hebrides and the Highlands of Scotland.