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.

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

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

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

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

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