I have always had a passion for the outdoors; the mountains in particular, travel and for landscape photography. I used to earn a living firstly as a Landscape Architect and subsequently the director of a community regeneration charity in South Wales. On reaching my 50th birthday I decided it was time for a career change (otherwise known as a mid-life crisis!). Rather naively I thought I'd make a living out of climbing mountains and taking pictures.............if only making a living out of photography was so simple! So, a year after doing little else but taking pictures and realising that digital photography wasn't just a new version of taking pictures on film, in August 2009 Creative Photography Wales was born with a plan to combine my photography with some aspects of my professional background..........not that I ever intended to become a teacher!