I was brought up in Manchester and my sports background is in rugby (union & league – Cambridge & Oxford University “Blues” & Combined England Students) & waterskiing (European Junior champion) before retiring after shoulder and ankle injuries. My general orthopaedic training was in the West Midlands followed by a year in Australia, in the largest sports medicine practice in the Southern Hemisphere & travelling fellowships in the USA & Europe.

I was appointed an NHS Consultant Orthopaedic & Sports Injury Surgeon to the Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry in 1998 (an unusual place for a large and thriving world-famous hospital which was sited in the borderlands of North West Shropshire & North East Wales by the pioneers of Orthopaedic Surgery at the turn of the century) www.rjah.nhs.uk. I retired in 2021.

Although I’ve been taking pictures for very many years including medium format colour home processing back in the ‘70s, I’ve developed a passion for wildlife photography over the last decade. I’ve only been aware of camera clubs, the PAGB & competitions since I joined Wrexham Photographic Society in 1998 & I am now a member in Keswick. I’ve had some success, awarded the Distinction merit of the Photographic Alliance of GB & in competitions including the British Photography Awards, the British Wildlife Photography Awards & was overall winner of both Best Nature Print in the PAGB GB Trophy & the BBC Wildlife Magazine’s photography awards in 2023.

After retiring as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialising in sports injuries (things like knee cruciate ligament tears & shoulder dislocations) in Gobowen (Oswestry) & earlier Wrexham, I now live in the Lake District.