If you just want to know what makes me giggle then scroll down, as this is the boring bit about how I got to here and now.

My joy for photography started when I was very young. I was obsessed by the amazing photos in the National Geographic magazines that my Dad read and had been absorbing them since I was tiny, then when I was eighteen my Dad took me on holiday and asked me what I actually wanted to do with my life, as further education was obviously not an option! I was starting to tinker with cameras by that point so I told him that I wanted to be a photographer, but despite figuring this out all that time ago I didn’t take it seriously for years.

One day, when I’d long discarded all my old gear, a new camera appeared, I was working in a big old office for a big old company and pretending I knew about I.T. (I really didn’t…) and my girlfriend bought one to play with. She asked me if I would teach her the basics and in no time I was hooked all over again, I’d bought my own camera, and two months later and I was telling everyone that I was going to be a photographer.

I’ve always had a creative outlet somewhere and by this time had been playing drums for years, the friends I made through playing music gave me the chance to combine my two favourite things and I was off shooting festivals by the summer. That’s where I started to learn the craft and that I could really do this for a living, I immersed myself in photography, changed careers and managed to turn this into my everyday.

I owe so many people for giving me the chances I needed to do this, I definitely couldn’t have done it without everyone’s help, and now I visit new places and meet new people constantly. Being able to make couples so happy with something I love doing is a ridiculous gift, nothing beats that feeling.

Honestly, when I’m charging around with a camera in each hand and everyone is enjoying themselves, I still catch myself instinctively whispering the words “I love my job” .