I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.