A bright summer's day in Surrey, southern UK, and the bi-annual Thai Festival was underway. Everything that one would expect in the way of Thai customs and culture was on hand, from dancing, culinary delights to reading palms and antiques. Everything was an explosion of colour and revelry, that I hope is evident from the images that I have chosen to show here.

I started photography to capture the memories of my daughters from babyhood onwards, and also of our early family life. We lived in Germany at the time, so many images were taken there; others are from swinging London of the late 1960s/early 1970s and street scenes in the USA (New York and LA) during the same time-frame

I also photographed colour as transparencies, but B&W was my favourite. I still consider B&W to be the true photographic art form

I developed and printed/enlarged my negatives in a make-shift darkroom. Many years later, I have now digitalised those B&W negatives, and am now in the process of preparing them for printing a book. I'm putting them up here to see how they look after rework, and may appear in book form

I would appreciate any comments that you care to make

I started photography to capture images of my children, an effort to stop time, as they were growing up so quickly. Photography soon turned into a passionate hobby, with trying 'to capture the moment' on film and transparencies, and involving many evenings in my home-based dark room. Initially I shot mainly B&W, only later on, transparencies. The B&W images shown in this gallery were taken in the late 60s and early 70s, my experimental period, when we were living in Germany. They were taken on an inexpensive East German manufactured Praktica with a variety of equally inexpensive lenses. Two other galleries show images from the same period, one of 'swinging' London and the other of my first visit to the USA, where we subsequently went to live for seven years. I have scanned the film, and now have the laborious task of cleaning the digital images resulting from years of neglect of the originals. If I'd know then that I was going to do this, I would have taken better care of the negatives over all those intervening years! Forgive me if these images are not yet as clean as they ultimately will be. I unashamedly show this old work, as, after a break from photography of nearly 20 years, I have taken it up again, this time purely digital. I feel myself back in the learning phase again. I wonder, too, if my style has changed, or if it is the same as then. I welcome any viewer comments, especially on this matter. Thank you.

These images were taken in 1970 during my second trip to the USA, two years before my family and I went to live there (Reading, PA). I visited New York and Los Angeles - 'from sea to shining sea' - Atlantic to Pacific oceans. These images, taken in New York City, Grand Central Park, and a marina in Los Angeles represent my last major photographic efforts with B&W. During this visit and thereafter I shot mainly colour transparencies. The photographs of the models taken on 5th Avenue was the result of an interesting experience. I noticed the girls parading in their colourful and fashionable clothes and started shooting them, only to be stopped by a very irate person, who pointed out that a film crew was filming them for an advertisement from a second floor window from across the street. Would I please stop, cease, desist, etc. His mobile phone rang, and, after answering it, he sheepishly asked me to continue photographing, as I was being used as a prop! Talk about a licence to kill! Foolishly, I was satisfied with that, and didn't ask for a fee, or more business! Got a load of colour images too. Maybe I'll get around to uploading those soon, too.