I was born in Bolton, Lancashire in the mid 60s. After a very unremarkable B minus education I left school with just one simple dream. To be a world famous rock star. After a very eventful number of years failing to live up to this dream I fell in love with my new purpose. I swapped my guitar for an Olympus camera and a new life opened up before me. My first 4 years in this new and exciting realm were all portrait studio work up and down the UK. I found at first I wasn’t very technically gifted, having no experience, but I found I could put clients at ease in a matter of minutes and have friends for life at the end of the shoot. My sense of humour became my biggest asset at the time and I later found it actually got me the job. Comfy clients equal amazingly productive sessions.

After 4 years I longed to branch out and use the skills I had gathered and do something new. I couldn’t have imagined just how different my life would change in such a short space of time. I headed out to America and for the next 19 years I worked on international cruise ships traveling the world and meeting and photographing more people than 10 life times on land could begin to achieve. (This is also where I was fortunate enough to meet my amazingly talented wife who will come into the story below and set me on another new adventure).

After a few short years I reached the heady heights of senior fleet Photo/Video manager. The only problem was this is mainly an admin job (Rock star to secretary was hard to compute) so with a massive leap of faith I traded my life of travel and adventure to come home and use all the skills and passions I had built up over the years and set up a company. Something that comes of years of experience and that I want to share with you.