From my birth in Poole, a town on the south coast of the UK; to regularly staying with relatives in Cannes, France; to my brother's wedding in Dallas, Texas; to visiting my parents in school holidays when they worked in Southern Africa; I've always been a bit of a traveller.
New places, exotic places, capture the moment. My brothers and I could not help but be influenced by the different and beautiful locations that we were taken to by our parents. My mum took pictures all through our childhoods. It is no wonder that we all progressed to having some kind of affinity with the lens. We all take photos, one brother becoming a film cameraman, the other an antique camera dealer.
And me ? After many years of taking photos for myself, while working a regular office job, I have re-found my passion. Leaving my old life behind, I have been travelling the world, taking pictures.
But Celtic Images is about photos of Pembrokeshire ? That's not exactly abroad? Well, no. But it still exotic to me. I only came to discover Pembrokeshire, or Wales for that matter, in 2001 when my mum and dad moved here. What a glorious place ! For all my travelling, I haven't seen half of Great Britain. It was all on my door step, waiting to be discovered, all over again by new eyes !
Just as I had started to establish myself in Wales, I went off to the Caribbean to travel and work as a scuba diver instructor and to take pictures underwater !! That my friends, is another story, oh, and another website - www.diveintolife.com !!
But returning to these temperate shores once more, in Jan 2007, I set about making more of name for myself locally in Pembrokeshire, selling my work in various outlets around the county.
Of course, one of these was Celtic Images, and staying in close contact with Ann and Gary gave me the opportunity to seize the chance of making it my own ....
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