I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

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 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.

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

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

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

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