After a BTEC media course in Harrogate Yorkshire, my first job was as in house cameraman/editor with Norwich Union the insurance company. Not as dull as it sounds, it gave me a fantastic grounding in everything. Then a year shooting medical films for a production company in Cambridge. The sights and smells were, to say the least, character building.

 
Then to the Bournemouth and Poole Film School, most inspiring, exciting wonderful year of my life. After graduation I shot numerous shorts on Super 16mm and 35mm. These lead to a low budget feature Beginner’s Luck. Which in turn lead to my first TV drama break. ‘Brookside’ for Channel Four, where you had to think fast. My career took me to BBC Doctors, again something that is fast turn around where I learnt that frugality is often the mother of invention. Then came Holby City and Casualty. Back to medicine again, but without the associated odours.

This year (21) I was asked to help bring a new version of Oscar Wilde's 'Canterville Ghost' to the screen lighting two one hour episodes. And a new creation for Britbox US 'The Sister Bonniface Mysteries'. I seem to spend much of my time shooting drama in beautiful places where people like to try and kill each other! Midsomer Murders for ITV to Father Brown for BBC Worldwide which has been incredibly successful selling around the world. Shot each summer in the Cotswolds it's set in the1950’s starring Mark Williams as the eponymous Father Brown.  To date I've DOPed 35 episodes. I’ve also worked on both series of ‘The Coroner’ again for BBC Worldwide, set in present day Devon starring Claire Goose.

1950’s Birmingham in the depths of winter was a very different colour palette and the setting for ‘WPC56’ the story of the West Mildland’s first female police officer. Shot over three series I lit 7 episodes.

Shakespeare and Hathaway private investigators, starring Jo Joyner and Mark Benton is a present day detective romp I've worked on for three series. It's a hoot.

With 20 years plus under my belt, I'm looking forward to what comes next. We’re living in a golden age of TV, with the most amazing technology at our disposal. I wonder what that wide-eyed lad from Yorkshire would have made of it?