Living in the alpine lakeside town of Wanaka in one of the most beautiful parts of New Zealand enables me to indulge in my passion for landscape photography.  My lifelong interest in technology saw me become one of the early New Zealand devotees of digital photography, and recent semi-retirement has provided the additional time to pursue my photography interests with even more enthusiasm.  

 I got started in photography at age 19, but didn’t join a club until I was in my 30’s specialising then in monochrome prints from 35mm negative film. A period of career change (into the electronic communications industry) caused a lull in photographic activity until I re-entered club activity in 1996 and decided to embrace the concept of an electronic darkroom as my home at that time would not have easily supported a wet darkroom.

 In 1999 I was awarded associate membership of the Photographic Society of New Zealand (PSNZ) with a portfolio of colour images made on one of the first Epson photographic printers (yes, they all faded in due course) At that time I was using transparency film and scanning it into Photoshop. 

In 2002 I won the Laurie Thomas New Zealand Landscape Salon and was appointed a PSNZ Panel Judge in 2004.

 As a result of the fantastic quality of light and stunning landscapes of the Wanaka area, I’ve established a gallery of local Art Photography in my home where I sell a range of work to locals as well as national and international tourists.

 In March 2005 I sold all my 35mm film gear and now use a Digital Pro-sumer camera, a Fuji S9600 exclusively, producing Art prints up to 1.5 metres long from my Epson Pro-4000 printer.  

I have been a long time computer buff and besides being closely involved in SeniorNet here in Wanaka, I have given presentations on digital imaging to many photographic groups in New Zealand.    

I have a lot of fun in Photography!