Growing up on a farm in Wensleydale (yes, as in the cheese) is not an obvious place to inspire a budding Director of Photography. A fifty mile round trip, the cinema was a rare treat indeed. So I cannot romantically tell you that I was bewitched by the silver screen, my fate sealed. It was more gradual than that. The photogenic, ever changing light and landscape of the Yorkshire dales proved my muse. In a way TV came to me. I would spend hours watching the BBC shoot ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. That was it, I wanted to tell stories, with light.