My father is a professional photographer – he worked for years doing commercial work, and is now doing well as a wedding snapper. I’ve always enjoyed photography, and have known how to work an SLR since I was a child, but it was only when I started my PhD that I bought myself a real camera and started taking it seriously.

One of the things that I decided at the time was that I didn’t want to make money from my images – once you start shooting for other people rather than yourself it’s a sigificant change; from a hobby to employment. I didn’t think that that was something that I wanted to do.

But I recently decided that it might be worth a go. I’ve got some shots that I’m pleased with, and some of them have potential commercially, I believe. So I’ve signed up with Alamy – my first “test submission” (12 images) was accepted, and a much larger batch of images (another 200) is now waiting to be uploaded onto their system and checked through QC.

I genuinely don’t know if the stuff I’m shooting will sell. I think I’ve got coverage of some things that Alamy are short on, and I’ve got a more creative style of travel imagery than most of what’s on there at the moment, so I’m fairly positive. We shall see :-)