"Manx Images" for Sale I keep and regularly update a catalogue of photographs of local events. These are stored for easy access and sale at PhotoBox. This is a commercial site where you can view and order my prints direct. You can access this site via the link at the top of the page. I shall be updating this after each event I attend during the coming year. If you have competed on two or four wheels on the Island, chances are, I have a photo of you doing it! Please feel free to check out the catalogue and email me if you can't find the event you were in, or the person you are searching for. You will appreciate that I have literally thousands of photographs going back many years and whilst I cannot upload them all, I am always happy to add specific images upon request.

About Me Having worked for many years as a cartographer with the Automobile Association both in London and Basingstoke and latterly running my own cartographic business, I finally fulfilled a dream in 1999 and relocated to the Isle of Man. I now live in Peel, on the Western coast of the Island and run my Cartographic and Photographic business from home.

Cartography I have produced everything from local town plans and parish rights of way maps to world mapping for major publishing companies. Over the last few years I have also built up a large body of Manx maps, both large and small scale. I have kept close links with the UK and regularly take on map commissions from local councils and private organisations. I am presently working on educational projects for the Department of Education (in conjunction with the Manx Heritage Foundation) and Manx Gaelic maps for the Manx Language Society.

Photography I have been a keen photographer for many years and am privileged to be able to pursue my interest both as a hobby (as a committee member of the Western Photographic Society) and professionally. I was able to provide many of the photographs of the Isle of Man in the Automobile Association's publications and regularly provide photos for local news publications. I specialise in taking motor sport photographs and am spoilt for choice amongst the Island's many fixtures: the TT, Manx Grand Prix, club racing at Jurby, Kart GP and car rallying!

Publications My motor sport pictures have appeared in many books and publications, in particular the motorcycle books produced by Mick Walker and I have supplied tourism photographs to National Geographic and Readers Digest. I am also involved in designing page layouts and typesetting for book productions; my most recently completed project was "Vincent and HRD Motorcycles, How They were Promoted and Sold" by David Wright.

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