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

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.

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

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

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