Born in 1954 in Blackpool, United Kingdom. I grew up around Photography, my father was a keen photographer, developed, enlarged and printed his own black and white photographs, not sure what he would have made of our digital age. I was fortunate that both my parents were keen outdoor loving people, my mother a fell walker and my father a keen cyclist. All our holidays were either spent in Scotland or the English Lake District. I started work age 16 at GSK in Ulverston, Cumbria, UK. Only 20 mins away from my beloved Lake District, I fell walked, rock climbed,...more