About Us

I suppose I have to give the credit to my father for getting me into photography.
I use to ‘roll’ my own black & white film, develop and print it by commandeering the bathroom. I stopped though at one big change in my domestic life only to take it up again some years later
still doing all my own developing and printing but then I decided to enroll in a few City & Guilds at Watford College and was good enough to enter 4 modules, Portraits, Photographing Buildings, Landscape and
Printing Black & White, respectively I got Distinction on the first 2 and
Credits on the last ones.
Once I obtained these results I then joined the Royal Photographic Society and gained a Licentiate honour, but haven’t as yet taken it any further.

I started  while a Wedding Photographer, that is where I honed more skills. Since giving up that side, I moved from Medium Format film cameras to Digital. I now prefer landscapes and gig photography but enjoy any portrait commissions I can get.

Whenever we travel somewhere the camera HAS to come too. I do remember one day leaving it at home, and commandeering my partners small digital camera so we could have some pictures to remember the trip by, or was it because I felt ‘naked’ without a camera in my hand?.

With the gig photography, I have to thank Bob Ayres of Shades of Blues,
who I noticed one evening taking pictures of the artistes on stage, I offered
my services and the rest is, well this web site! I also have to thank Bob for ‘persuading’ me to purchase my latest camera, a Nikon D700, although he doesn’t know it!

With all this photography I now need to show it off on the walls at home so I took up another venture, consequently a companion company and site was created.

www.framingbygr.co.uk