This section gives you more of my non-photographic CV - for my photographic background please go to the Introduction section.

I was born in N. Ireland and after spending part of my childhood in what was then Malaya (now Malaysia), went to school in N. Ireland then in Scotland.   Next, I studied biochemistry at the University of Dublin (Trinity College).  After graduating at Trinity, I did my Ph.D. in the Biochemistry Department at Leeds University, and subsequently did research at the University of Warwick, and then for the Medical Research Council at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow.  In 1975 I was appointed Lecturer in Veterinary Virology at the University of Edinburgh.  I took early retirement in 2001 after a couple of years on secondment to the Edinburgh University Computing Service to provide computing support to the Faculties of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. 

This has allowed me to devote more time to serious photography.  I also designed and maintain web sites for various organisations, including the Scottish Cytology Training School and the Scottish branch of the Trinity College Dublin Association.

This is what my passport alleges I look like...