James Bailey Photography

I grew up in rural Somerset in the 80s on a mixture of blue slush puppies and Saturday morning cartoons. I've had an artistic temperament for most my life with a fondness of drawing from an early age, but despite this, a logical brain and career prospects pushed me in the direction of a computer science degree, which I attained from Swansea University in 1999.

I bought my first digital camera in 2001 and found it's combination of artistic creativity and technical wizardry appealed to me.

Several years back I decided I needed a better camera to capture the safari we were going on for our honeymoon, so I picked up a second hand Canon DSLR and taught myself how to use it for a year before the trip. Since then, my gear has been upgraded several times to professional level equipment I use today. Now I see the world as a series of opportunities to be captured through a viewfinder.