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

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

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.

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

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

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!