Moving back to the UK aged eight, I lived in suburbia. I was devastated to leave Kenya, but regular holidays at my grandparents in the Hampshire countryside and a very rural school in Buckinghamshire allowed me to immerse myself in a very different natural world from that of East Africa. It was at this school that I took a keen interest in the local badgers and my enthusiasm for wildlife photography began. Using a Minolta SR101 and Sunpack flashgun, it wasn’t long before I captured my first images of the badgers. An expensive telephoto lens for the shyer subjects was out of the question. My solution was to place the camera on a tripod near where the subject was likely to be and trigger it remotely with a 20ft pneumatic release. This was the mid-70's and a great tit taking the cream off the milk was an early venture into the use of “remote” triggering devices to capture images that would otherwise have been impossible with the kit that I had at the time.