Now that I have decided to start my personal ramblings-

I really don’t know what to ramble about.

Well, I suppose that a bit about me would be a good idea:

I was born in South Africa many years ago. My father was from Aberdeen, Scotland and my mother was South African.

I have an elder brother and sister. My brother and some of his children now also live in the UK. My sister is still in SA and it is doubtful if she will ever leave.

But I digress, at the beginning of 1999, I decided that it was time for me to leave the sunny climes of South Africa. This was mainly due to the high crime rate.

First hand experience for me unfortunately, 9 burglaries in 5 years. All my camera equipment - the most devastating blow for me. No insurance to cover the loss, as in SA, after the third burglary, you won’t get any cover.

So, on 3 August 1999, I landed at Heathrow. I had never been to the UK before and said to friends before I left, that I would know whether I would stay within 2 weeks. Well, after a couple of days, I knew that I would stay.

Had a couple of various jobs to build up additional capital and eventually I was able to invest in a Canon 10D and then a Canon 20D and various lenses, Canon and Sigma.

I met my wife Angela in August 2000 at a barbecue I organised for my birthday. She was brought along by a friend of mine. We obviously immediately clicked and we were subsequently married on 20 March 2004. The third anniversary coming up soon. Mustn’t forget that!!

Friends of ours had seen my photography and persuaded my to take on their wedding photography. Having not done any weddings for a couple of years, I was not too keen. After much persuasion, I relented and did it.

I loved it and the passion was rekindled and the rest is history.

I am now a full time photographer and help out at a police station in one of the surrounding villages, three days a week. Lovely bunch of people there to work with.

Finally, we were blessed (well our daughter was) with a set of twins at the end of August last year. I will post some images of them at a later stage. They have an elder sister, who will be 5 in the beginning of August.

Our son and his girlfriend ( note I don’t say partner, can’t stand the word) have a little girl as well, she just turned 4 a month ago.

Well, now you know a lot about me, so I will end this bit.

Goodnight.