My love of photography started off in Newcastle. I did some tuition with the Newcastle Herald photographer. One of the things that I decided to do after I had gone through some of the courses and had some idea of what it was about – was a pinhole photograph of Newcastle Cathedral. Instead of using a lens you use the eye of a needle. You can use a hole in a cardboard box if you like to get the same effect, but it was handy to set it up. This type of photo would give you a long exposure of about 20 minutes. I set it up on the tripod and got a nice photograph of Newcastle Cathedral. Later on I took one with a 35 millimetre lens inside the Cathedral and got quite a nice photograph of the interior of the Cathedral…

An interesting position I had to be in to take a photo of the ceiling of the church at Edinburgh Castle meant I had to lay down on the floor and take it looking up. It turned out quite nicely. A few people had a look to work out what I was doing!

Another photo I took was on the border of Costa Rico and Guatemala, they’d put on a dance for us. They had this lovely dance going on and I took a hand held photograph of about half a second which captured the movement. It turned out quite nicely.