My wife Betty introduced me to photography nearly 50 years ago. We developed negatives from her Box Brownie in my uncle's cowshed. It had darkness and hot and cold running water and, with a few chemicals, that was all that was necessary. With my cousin's help we produced contact prints in the uninhabited old farmhouse - worthy of a few pictures in itself.

Our gradual progress from there to getting our Fellowships of the RPS is described in Betty's portfolio. My first attempt at this distinction was a panel of monochrome prints of leaves and the judges politely hinted that this was a somewhat limited subject and failed it. Then in 1986 I tried again with a Cibachrome colour panel of more general natural images and was successful.

I take very few pictures of people or of man-made objects preferring landscapes, animals and plants as subjects. My favourite nature images are not straight "Natural History" pictures. I prefer to be creative, to try to capture the beauty and atmosphere of the natural world rather than produce illustrations for a text-book.

Unlike some who cling to the traditional methods of producing images I was using computers from 1960 onwards and built my first microcomputer from a kit of components in 1974. I couldn't wait for computers to become powerful enough to produce decent prints and get me out of that smelly darkroom. They finally did this for me in about 1994 and since then I have not looked back.

Recently Betty and I have been holding our own exhibitions and thoroughly enjoying it. We hope to do more of this in the future.