Professionally, I am a computer software designer and developer, and photography has been my main hobby since the 1980s. I plodded along as a "snapper", and slowly drifted away from it in the late 1990s. In 2000, in an attempt to re-ignite my interest, I bought a new auto-focus camera and booked myself onto a City and Guilds landscape photography course at the Watershed in Bristol. I got hooked again.
Following on from that course I did another 4 (Black & White, Photo Essay, Buildings and Action & Movement), gaining a full C&G Stage 2 qualification. The courses completely changed my photography, taking me from someone who was keen but never put much thought into his work, and changing me into someone much more thoughtful and hopefully creative, and interested in trying new things.
Equipment
I mainly use a Nikon D200 with Sigma 10-20mm, Nikon 18-200VR and 70-300VR lenses, and occasionally a Cosina 100mm macro lens.
Most of the film images on the site were taken on a Nikon F80, with some on a Pentax MZ-5n. A few are taken on an Olympus OM1n that I bought a few years ago - a lovely solid piece of engineering. I have also recently inherited a Contax G2 21mm, 35 and 90mm lenses - an autofocus rangefinder with fantastic lenses.
Many of the films were scanned on a Nikon Coolscan III, with an Epson V750 taking over more recently.
I have also been known to experiment with pinhole cameras of various types, as well as a medium format Lubitel.
For snaps, I use a Panasonic FX-37 compact camera. Previous compacts were a Canon Ixus and Canon A40.
Technical Website Stuff
The original version of this website was hand-coded in XHTML 1.0, and formatted using CSS 2.1, and was subsequently re-written in PHP linked to a MySQL database to make it easier to maintain. I have also written a bespoke content management system for the website using C#.
Most of the HTML/CSS knowledge came from the excellent book "HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, Fifth Edition" by Elizabeth Castro (Peachpit Press).
The AJAX/Javascript lightbox software for displaying the images is Slimbox 2 from digitalia.be