It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.