From intra-oral camerawork to landscape photography

My father was a general dentist with an enthusiastic interest in photography who passed the passion onto me. When I was eight, I went to Chester Zoo with a Kodak film camera given to me by my father. From then on, my film photography was all about family and holidays. During my PhD research in Manchester, I learned to develop my own black and white film for my publications. Part of my restorative consultant training took place at the now-closed Wordsley General Hospital in the West Midlands. Here I learned dental photography as part of an implant overdenture trial. I was taught by a medical photographer who was keen that I followed the rules. She instilled a systematic approach to my photography for which I will be forever grateful. I switched to digital photography in 2000, 10 years later I started to get involved in a picture a day project and became fully immersed in Instagram. My confidence grew and I began to take photographs of different subjects unrelated to dentistry.