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

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

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

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

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