29th June 2026

Today, at the end of a long, exciting and fulfilling career, I have just sold ALL of my photographic equipment, bar a limited number of my old film cameras! Everything has gone, meaning that I am no longer a photographer, professional or not.

This was not a decision that I took lighty though. Faced with aggressive, inoperable prostate cancer I found that I was becoming increasingly hampered by the weight of my kit, to such an extent that I realised that an iPhone would be plenty for me to carry in future. So it all had to go, in the most wonderfully cathartic experience of my career.

I feel liberated and the shelves are empty! That's not to say that I won't ever buy another camera, as the iPhone is somewhat limiting, but it'll have to be a carefully considered decision, unlike my earlier foray into the world of Leica - which ended badly!

For many years I ran a specialist stock library, containing well over 350,000 images, including a wide range of images from the core archives of the Military Picture Library that I founded in 1971, but these images are now up for grabs.

I was an experienced Digital Asset Management (DAM) consultant from the early days of image management, which was essential for the smooth running of my picture library. I can still use those skills to maintain my own personal archive.

But for everything else this site now becomes a 'What I Did' rather than a 'What I'm Doing' site, and such advice and words of wisdom that I might offer have to be tempered to you, my dear viewers, by the knowledge that the younger generation probably know better!

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