Photography has played a central role in my life. From my first 35mm Pentax to my latest 8mp Fuji, I've had a fairly decent camera ever since the mid 80's. I had my own B/W darkroom setup for a while. That was good fun, but expensive. I prefer digital photography; it is so convenient. And Photoshop is the latter-day darkroom:

Some recent photography:

My latest photography - almost entirely nature-oriented:

Photography & Art:

A few panoramic views:

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I've been dabbling with 3D CG art for several years now. Initially I was rendering the occasional still image using trueSpace. They were each quite simple scenes really, as the examples below demonstrate:

When the Metanoia documentary film got underway, circa early 2005, it became clear that we would need to find video for certain topics (ie mitochondria and AI beetles) for which there was little or no available stock video material online. Hence I began to experiment with 3D animation. Admittedly my first attempts at animation were also quite simple - by professional standards. But teaching yourself new tricks and setting yourself production deadlines, that is not so simple a task. All I knew was the basics:

Lately I am using Vue 6 to produce 3D animations. I love the realism that it offers - although I aim for surrealism. I have just increased my humble render farm to 3 Intel quad core PC's, running at a combined 28 gigahertz. They still take days and days to materialise though:

thanks for looking...