I am a Brit from North Yorkshire (no comments, please!) and was based for most of my professional life in and around London. I moved to France (just outside Geneva) in 2001. I moved again to Burgundy in central France in 2004 before finally retiring as an International NGO Director. It was following my retirement that I decided to take photography more seriously and I have not looked back since.
Having been interested in wildlife, particularly birds, for as long as I can remember it was not long before I began taking photographs of them, wherever I travelled. It was inevitable, I suppose, that as I searched for the birds I should stumble upon other wonderful (and sometimes weird) examples of life in our natural world.
This photograph (right) was taken in the Shoreline Regional Wildlife Area at Mountain View, California, USA.
The extraordinary plant to the left was found at Cedar Park near Austin, Texas, USA. The stem was Y-shaped and each of the thistles were spaced out and upright so that the whole plant looked like a candelabra.
I shall record in this blog more of the birds, plants, insects, animals and other wild creatures that I have come across in the garden and during my travels in France and elsewhere. I hope that you will enjoy following me and my camera as I go in search of the natural world.
Finally, I want to say how much I appreciate the incredible patience and wholehearted support of my American-born but terribly French wife, Nancy, who is always by my side, in body or spirit, wherever I go. This blog is for her.