"The Valley Awakens. 6.43. Eden Valley - Limited Edition of 10" Photograph

I'm a Northerner - born and brought up in Manchester, living now in Leeds after spending some time living in the Eden Valley in Cumbria. My company is The View From The North. For most of my working life I was a television producer/director - making documentaries and history and travel series for the BBC, ITV and Channel Four in the UK and for PBS, Discovery, The History Channel and The Travel Channel in the US. After more than thirty years as a film maker I switched my attention to writing and as an author I had ten books published. Like a lot of my television work subjects covered included social, industrial and architectural history. My video camerawork featured in several programmes and most of my books were illustrated with my photographs. Travelling the world, I've always had cameras with me and inspiration has come particularly from the great mountain ranges I've explored - Alps, Pyrenees, Andes, Himalayas and Rockies - and from remote wild places I've travelled like Patagonia, Iceland and Norway. But my biggest influence has been the ever changing landscape of the part of Britain where I lived for many years - the Eden Valley in Cumbria.