Alan came to photography via a childhood spent wandering around the countryside looking at all types of wildlife with his brother, including two years in Cyprus where his parents indulged them by allowing various reptiles to be kept in boxes on the veranda. His teens were spent birding and he came back around back around to general natural history in his thirties. Keen on taking photographs during trips abroad whilst travelling it seemed a natural progression to combine his interest with nature with photography.
As he has a young family, time is at a premium and most of his photography is done close to home, either in his garden or at Foxley Wood in Norfolk.