I got my first camera, a Brownie 127, when I was 8. From then on my career was clear. I went througyh a range of cameras getting better every time, I don't think my father expected me to manage to make my half when he offered to pay half of the cost of a Leica IIIF red dial that I'd found if I saved the other half.

There was no harder working part time salesman that year, I sold more suits, shirts, ties and so on on commission than you can imagine and not only managed half the cost of the camera but half the 35mm and 85mm lenses as well!

After art school in the late sixties I worked as a stills assistant, where I worked mainly in fashion and advertising and then as a stills photographer specialising in music.

One day I was asked if I knew anyone who could film a concert. Of course I did!

I moved to film completely and shot documentaries for TV, 10 years or so of 20/20 for ABC and an awful lot of music promos.

In 1985 I was shooting a documentary about the making of the Pirelli calendar. It was being photographed by Terence Donovan who liked the way I lit and asked if I shot commercials.............

After concentrating on commercials for 20 years I've now started to shoot more drama, my first major motion picture is Mutant Chronicles which I spent from May to October 2006 working on, shooting main unit and then model and second unit.

This film was shot digitally and I was able to draw on my many years experimenting with digital systems, I shot the launch material for the Viper system nearly 5 years before Mutants was shot!

A sideline in the last few years has been advising people on digital technology.

I shot "The Dark Country" in 3D with Thomas Jane both directing and starring in late 2007 using a combination of SI-2K's and Red's

This was followed by Streetfighter: The Legend of Chun-Li in Thailand a more conventional action film with numerous 35mm 3perf cameras.

Wallander followed in Sweden, again with Red's.

I've worked on the planning of a number of 3D films recently both in the UK and Scandinavia and just completed shooting a small 3D film in Sweden

I've been shooting commercials and promos in 3d for Mercedes and Sky recently, I'm trying to concentrate on work that stretches me so 3D at 160mph and 3D at 1000fps!

I've also been teaching workshops in Digital Cinema and 3D in between shooting and have now taught in Amsterdam, Bangkok, Hannover, London, Manchester, Munich, Toronto, Singapore, Rockport, LA, New York and Chicago with LA again in December and a wide ranging Asian tour scheduled for the near future.

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