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.

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

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

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

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

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.