About me

I was hooked on photography at a very early age.  After about 15 years experimenting with many different cameras (both 35mm and medium format) I bought my first Nikon SLR (a black FE) in June 1983.   On that day in June, I found that Nikon cameras were a perfect fit for my hands. That was not something I found with Canon SLRs at the time; or even more recently when I’ve used my friend’s full frame Canon DSLR. 

My wife and I left London in 1994 for a new life on the wonderful Greek island, Crete  We built our own house and in the surrounding land we grow a large variety of organic produce including: artichokes, asparagus, aubergines, avocadoes, beans, courgettes, lemons, nectarines, oranges, peppers, tangerines, tomatoes…and this year we have our first crop of bananas ripening too! 

In august every year we produce around 350 litres of organic red wine.  Last winter the crop from our small olive grove produced 50 litres of extra virgin olive oil. 

We are fortunate to share our lives with Anglos the donkey, two dogs, 10 cats and a rather overly protective cockerel and his five hen harem; they produce fantastically tasty eggs, many people say they are the best they have ever tasted.

I'm the one on the right 

I guess you could say our lives are a bit like Tom and Barbara in the 1970s TV series The Good Life but they didn’t have a recording studio in the basement... 

Music has always been another passion of mine.  I like to tickle the ivories and have made and sold a few of my own CDs but my first love is really the technical aspects of recording, engineering and production.  I’ve been fortunate to work with some very talented artists at the studio and, for me, there is nothing to beat those magic moments when the hairs on the back of the arms rise to acknowledge an outstanding performance captured to ‘tape’.  The studio website isn’t just about recording; it has over 40 pages on a diverse range of subjects:  www.kymatasound.com   

That’s all for now… for questions and comments, please feel free to use the contacts page