I live in south east Wales, near Tintern with my wife, garden writer Anne Wareham. We have lived here since 1987 and we have made a garden. A big garden by most people’s standards. You can come and see it if you like. (See the website for details).

I photograph gardens for publication. I have been doing this since 1999. In 2009 I had a book published – “Discovering Welsh Gardens” (now out of print) and in 2011 I did all the photography for Anne’s book, “The Bad Tempered Gardener” (also out of print but her next book “Outwitting Squirrels “ is still going strong). I have over 8.000 images with GAP photos. I also send some garden images but mostly pictures from my travels to Getty where I have over 5,000 images.

Writing this blog is for the enjoyment of writing – well, and as a rather special and focused diary of some of my best walks. I started it in 2012 when I started walking the newly opened 870 miles Wales Coast Path; it starts (or finishes if you prefer) just 5 miles from my home. That project occupied over 3 years and 78 posts. Since then I have added several accounts of through-walking trips in France and Italy as well as The Offa’s Dyke Path, and the Cambrian Way. And loads of other day walks.

The posts are illustrated by photographs. Of course. These will be pictures taken “on the hoof” in whatever weather and light conditions were prevailing at the time. I started with a Canon G12 and now have a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ100. This “top end” compact allows me to take pictures in a RAW format and to process them myself. This gives better results than the cameras built in processing of the images. That’s the approach I use with my professional garden photography (though there I use a Canon 6D MK II and various lenses).

In writing about my walks I hope, first and foremost to entertain. I write as I find, so the posts aren’t all about what was great about a walk but also what I didn’t enjoy. Sometimes I hold forth about things that have nothing to do with walking. I love it when people comment on the posts and will always reply to any contribution, however rude.