At the age of 8 I received my first motocross bike competing at club level with Castle Acre, Kings Lynn, Norfolk and Suffolk, Peterborough, and Norwich schoolboy motocross clubs until I retired from racing in 1993.
 

In that year my two brothers (Rick and Phil) and I were asked by Lings to put on a Motocross display at a local show “The Wayland Show”.  Following on from the success of this show we were asked to display at other shows, during this time we invited Andy Godbold to join us. The show gathered pace and in 1996 Andy took full control of the running of it turning it into the Bolddog FMX team as its known today.

 
Two years later I broke my ankle landing from a jump and decided it was time to retire. This gave me time to further my hobby of photography. This involved developing my skills and understanding of shutter speeds, f-stops, panning, iso speed etc on my Canon AE1 camera. This camera gave me a great foundation in photography, as there are no automatic settings so all settings had to be adjusted for each shot, get it wrong and you wasted the film and print
 
 
In 1998 Aidan my son arrived and got into my love of motocross and wanted to race so in 2005 Aidan took his place on the Auto’s start line. One year later I was back, not happy with standing on the side of the track, however, after a crash at Hockham in 2008 where another riders bike hit the side of me and left me stunned on the floor I decided it was time to retire again!
 
 
I then started mixing the two hobbies, taking lots of pictures and posting them on club websites with a great deal of response from the riders. I noticed at a few meetings there was no official photographer so I approached  Norwich and District club and asked if I could shoot the next meeting and deliver a full printing service so riders can go home with full colour printed photos of the meeting they have just attended
 
 
I have received a massive response from this first trial and as you know I now continue to take photos at the meetings. I believe that being a rider for many years has given me a better understanding of how to capture bike and rider in perfect harmony