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 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.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

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

But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.