About Austin
Austin is a full time Environmental Manager and keen photographer in his spare time.  His main photographic interests reflect his lifelong interest and concern for all aspects of the natural environment, from astronomical phenomena to landscape and wildlife.  But he also enjoys photographing people, especially at events, and has developed a special interest in creating stunning photo-merges that capture unusual viewpoints of otherwise familiar buildings or viewpoints.

Austin has lived in Shetland for nearly 20 years, a place he very much regards as home and where the majority of his photographs have been created.  He has now had a number of images published in local news media and a few in magazines such as the BBC's "Sky at Night" magazine.  After winning a couple of photographic competitions, making a number of image sales and undertaking his first commission he has recently decided to move on to a more professional footing.  This has involved the launch of this website to promote his work, starting to actively promote his work for sale, and to plan for a solo exhibition of his photographs sometime next year.

Austin has been taking photographs since he was old enough to hold a camera and believes that, in all his photograph taking the one key thing that is more likely than anything else to result in a good photograph is proper planning, both ahead of time and on the day.  Having said that, he recently admitted that some of his most memorable images were taken just by chance.  As well as that, Austin likes to experiment, with some interesting results!

As you will gather from these pages Austin has many hobbies and interests but he has always had an interest in wildlife, travel and wide open spaces.  Of his photography, Austin says "Photography has been my constant companion in recording some of the places I've been and some of the things I've seen.  I haven't been to or seen a fraction of the places and things that I would like to have seen and done, mostly for financial reasons but over the past 2 decades I've been fortunate to capture some of Shetland's astounding landscape, wildlife and astronomical phenomena.  I'm content with that".

Contact
If you would like to buy any of my images, either as prints or to licence them for publication or other use, please use the contact details below:

Equipment

My current equipment is as follows:

Nikon D200 digital SLR
Nikon F801s SLR
Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G AF-S DX IF ED
Nikkor 28-85 f/3.5-4.5 AF Macro
Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G AF-S VR IF ED
Nikkor 300mm f/4D AF-S IF ED
Nikkor TC-14E II teleconverter
Kenko Pro 300 2x teleconverter
Nikon SB-800 Flash
Nikon SB-24 Flash
Manfrotto 055 tripod and head
Velbon lightweight tripod and head