Hi! As you probably guessed from the name, I'm a photography fanatic. Favourite subjects for photos are mostly wildlife and the natural world (especially dogs, for some absurd reason) coz you really get to see the incredible world God made just for us.

As well as photography, I'm addicted to books and music (classical, film scores, etc.). The family joke is that I was born with only one hand, coz the other was holding a book! So what do I go for book-wise? Well, pretty much anything with words, so long as it's decent, but heavy leanings towards sci-fi, fantasy and absurdism. As such favourite authors are: Isaac Asimov, Terry Pratchett, the one-and-only JRR TOLKIEN!!, and, well, you get the idea. Am not the greatest Harry Potter fan, though will write HP fanfics. Cannot stand: Dan Brown and any other psuedo-intellectual (they deserve to die horribly), Andy McNabb and the rest of the I'm-an-ex-soldier brigade and Tom Clancy.

Favourite book of all time, ever, ever, ever (have read it fifteen times at last count, and watched the films at least seven) is The Lord of the Rings. A pure work of genius.

Da piccy is one I took (told you I'm good). It's of a stray cat in the old city of Jerusalem (I was there in the summer), and basically, the story behind it goes as follows: whilst wending my touristy way through said city with a group of friends, we spotted two strays (for which Jerusalem is famous - there's loads of them all over the place and how they gto there is a story in it's own right) that were having, for lack of a better word, a catfight. The underdog (alright, undercat) escaped and ran up a tree so the other decided that, seeing as it didn't really have anything planned for the afternoon, it would just chill at the bottom and wait, every so often checking over its shoulder. I caught it in the middle of turning its head; the cat was NOT posing, ok?! My friends thought I was mad, but isn't it funny, how, when the picture is up on your wall and they walk in and see it, madness suddenly becomes a work of genius? (their description, not mine!). Now stand in awe.

P.s. I feel obliged to repay the favour that hanzitheincredible bestowed upon me in her grace and must implore you to read her stuff, if only to keep her happy. It's an ego thing, she'll get over it.