A retired anaesthetist based in Newcastle upon Tyne, I now have the time to take a renewed interest in photography and to spend time in web site design. My main interests are in making high-resolution panoramic prints, QuickTime Virtual Reality panoramas, and focus-stacked closeups.
My large collection of motor racing pictures taken in the 1960s and 1970s are very popular, as are my Super8 movies (on YouTube) from the same period, which have been viewed over 320,000 times .
My web site (which I wrote and maintain myself) had 7,000 visits and 97,000 page views during the year to 20th March 2010.
The galleries have pictures on a wide variety of subjects. Some are zoomable, and some panoramas also have high-resolution versions: both reveal great detail.
Panoramic photographs are a speciality, including Lake District views, and QuickTime Virtual Reality panoramic movies, which are displayed here using Flash (QuickTime isn't needed).
Most of the panoramas are made from several exposures, and make beautiful high-resolution large prints. All can be printed to order, and all files can be purchased to use as wallpaper.
There is a large collection of historic motor racing photos and movies (available on DVD), and a tutorial about making galleries of thumbnails using my own design, which uses floating, auto-scaling images and works with any screen resolution.
Purchasers of my work receive a prompt, personal, and flexible service.
Being an active member of Newcastle Photographic Society for many years was a pleasure. The Society's competitions were a great help in developing my photography, and the constructive criticisms of judges were particularly valuable. I was President in 1980-81, but work commitments eventually prevented me from attending meetings. The Society no longer exists (no connection). Since retiring, photography is once again a major interest.
Numerous competition successes within Newcastle Photographic Society. In addition, the following were while a member:
1976/77 1st Place in Bonsor Colour Slide Competition
1980 & 1984 Represented Northern Counties Photographic Federation in Alliance Competition
1980/81 Joint 1st place Jessops of Leicester Newcastle 900 Festival
1986 Represented Northern Counties Photographic Federation in Colour Slide Competition
1976, 1977, 1982, 1983 Slides selected for Northern Counties Photographic Federation Portfolio.
Two acceptances for Stockton on Tees International Festival of Colour Photography.
2006 Exhibition of framed prints for sale in The Travel Bureau Gosforth
Two of my QuickTime Virtual Reality panoramas, Millennium Bridge, and Swing Bridge are on BBC Tyne's web site, where there is also a page of my pictures.
Three of my QTVR movies are used to great effect on the Willow Bog Bonsai web site.
Three of my Lake District movies of views during walks and climbs appear in the Lake District Guide.
My photographs have been used as illustrations in Freeman Hospital's Annual Reports and others.
My old Super 8 motor racing movies on YouTube have been described as a priceless historical record, and have been viewed over 250,000 times. They are available on DVD for purchase.
A number of my original 35mm transparencies of motor racing in the '60s and 70s have been purchased by JARROTTS, from whom high quality framed prints may be purchased. They are still displayed here, by kind agreement.
After training in medicine and going straight into anaesthesia (it looked much more interesting) in Newcastle upon Tyne, I worked at Alder Hey in Liverpool, Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg (the biggest hospital in the world), and Groote Schuur in Cape Town. Twenty-nine years as a cardiothoracic anaesthetist at Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, were rewarding and satisfying, and enabled me to develop my interests in programming, and the design of treatment protocols for the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, where my patient management system used a PC at the end of each bed to replace paper, ink, and Tippex and changed the way we managed patient care. This led into database programming with FoxPro 2.6 which was as rewarding to get right as it was difficult.
Some of my motor racing photographs are in "Formula 5000 Motor Racing – Back then, and back now", the definitive guide to F5000 racing, by Derek Lawson.
Some of my mini racing photographs appeared in the Mini Cooper Register, September 2009 and March 2010.
I have a pathetically small number of academic publications.
