I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

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

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

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!

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!

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

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.