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

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

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

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.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

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