Here are a few of my photographs grouped into image collections


This Gallery contains a small sample of the many pictures I have taken over a lifetime in Vehicle and Aircraft Recovery, along with a few of my photographic hobby shots.

Yes I know today everyone is a brilliant Photographer, but most of these were taken when cameras did not do the work for you. It was necessary to ‘adjust setting yourself’ and early on, wait a week to get them developed to see if they even came out!

 

HOW TO USE :

Just click on any image to see that image in a larger size. Then once you are displaying the ‘larger size’ screen you can easily scroll through the images with the left and right arrows at each side. When finished click ‘X’ (top right) to close the screen.


LAND (scapes)

ABOUT - I love looking at other people’s landscape images, but rarely seem to have the success with them that others do. Here however, are a few from around the world I have taken that, I am pleased with.




SEA

ABOUT – I have always had a love of the sea and for many years I was lucky enough to own a succession of boats. During that time I was able to get up close to some classic vessels and capture them for all time with my camera. The main interest has been our magnificent navy especially those that took part in the Falklands War. There are also a couple of American 'Legends' I visited (and even got to sit in the Captain’s seat of the USS Enterprise)






AIR

ABOUT – In the seventies I started to learn how to fly at Biggin Hill, but the money run out before I got my PPL. The in 1988 when I was running National Rescue, I accomplished my first aircraft recovery, when we rescued the Brooklands Vickers Varsity leading to many more in the following years. This has meant I have had may opportunities to photograph interesting aircraft and so here are a few of them.





GLAMOUR

ABOUT – Back when I wa still at school, because of my interest in photography (inherited from Dad) I was one of a few people with a camera and I soon realised I had the ability to take good 'Portrait' photographs, that over the years (along with the Sun newspaper) kindled an interest in perfecting the art of Glamour Photography. When I meet my future wife in the early eighties it was clear to me, she was naturally Glamours, and so made a perfect subject to work with. Below is a small sample of my work with her, plus a couple of other models.



BROOKLANDS

ABOUT – My company National Rescue opened a new depot at Brooklands in February 1984 and soon after that I was approached by the still being formed Brooklands Museum to see if we could recover the ‘odd thing’ for them. Over the last forty plus years those odd things ranged from a few bombs to some fifty plus complete or partial aircraft. In fact, there are very few major exhibits at Brookland I have not be involved with in some way as a volunteer.



RECOVERY

ABOUT – I did my first vehicle Recovery with Forge Garage, Poynings in 1965 and became hooked on the industry. This resulted in me spending my entire life associated with it. In the start I formed National Rescue (still run today by my nephew Martin). They were the golden years in which myself and many others developed the recovery technics and equipment in use today. I then with the help of some very clever people developed and sold software and hardware to make the job easier and more efficient. After retiring in 2007 I have in recent years, been fighting to make it a safer place to work. Here are just a few highlights and special jobs from it.



MISCELLANEOUS

ABOUT – I just wanted to share some of images with visitors to this website. It was easy to divide them up into groups based on their subject matter, but here are the ones I could not easily do that with.