Firstly, the Target Aviation Photography site aims to promote my main interest in life (apart from my family), aviation photography. I think and breathe aviation photography!   If I am not planning for an assignment or event, whether it be in the UK, Europe or North America, then I am taking time off to go to Wales or Cumbria for some low level flying photography. Aviation Photography for me includes, vintage and veteran civil aircraft, warbirds (Duxford/Imperial War Museum) and modern military aircraft add a bit more excitement to aviation photography, when they are flying. If I am lucky then flying with the RAF for some air to air images, takes my aviation photography a stage further. Military base visits, give me a chance to talk to pilots and to get in close. Aviation photography is so much better when the shots are taken of aircraft in their natural surroundings, and way from the public and barriers.

I was born in Toronto, Canada in 1956. My father served with the RAF in the 50's, but after moving to Canada for some years we returned to England to settle in the Midlands. From the mid 1960's I lived in Elmdon Lane, beside Elmdon Airport or as it is now known, Birmingham International Airport. I witnessed the first jet to land there in 1967, a KLM Douglas DC-9. I took up spotting from the age of nine or ten and photography followed a few years later. My first serious camera was a second hand Pratica 35mm SLR. I remember taking landing shots with my only lens, a standard 50mm, at RAF Valley in the early 70's whilst sitting amongst the landing lights, the jets were full frame! I bought my first telephoto lens in 1973 a 300mm f5.6 Sigma for just £22, my telephoto lenses have been replaced many times since, with more and more expensive models. I have favoured Canon equipment for the last 20 years or more.