A BIT ABOUT ME

I've been a professional tourism photographer for more than 20 years (so, given I’m over 60, there’s no romantic notion here about me picking up a camera when I was three years old).

I wandered Australia, then the world, as soon as I left school but came back three years later to do uni and was awarded a cadetship as a newspaper journalist before moving through radio and television, then working for a global public relations company.

Deciding I wasn’t quite ready to settle into corporate life, I headed overseas to wander the Americas as a travel writer and photographer before being drawn to the adventure of living in Papua New Guinea where I spent two years managing a national communications program that saw me traversing the country. It was then I wrote my first book of short stories and photographs, fascinated by a young country as it moved from the Stone Age to the Space Age in less than a lifetime.

I returned to Australia to become a father and, over time, the CEO of three tourism authorities in two states but, at 40, it was time for a change again and I started my own publishing company.

In the first instance, I offered a range of services across Australia and the South Pacific but my business quickly grew to specialise in tourism photography. Since then, I've been commissioned by every major tourism authority in the South Pacific, many in Australia and South-East Asia, and several on the African continent and The Middle East.

Eighteen books of my work have been published to date.

I now live on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, about an hour north of Brisbane.