In 1956 my Grandmother (left) and her sister were married on the same day in Wallsend. Almost 60 years later, I restored and coloured this photo to show her at a family reunion. She’s 85 years old.

I took along the DSLR to my cousin’s wedding in Jamaica during the summer and managed to get some really natural shots of the bride and groom (largely by getting in the way of the official photographer – tsk tsk).

Sometimes I’ll be asked by a sales person to produce concept artwork for a website design, in order for them to win a pitch. Mockups like these are always good fun, because you can be as creative as you like, without brand constrictions or having to worry about image rites (as the artwork isn’t guaranteed to be used).

Like most web designers, I barely use photoshop for its intended purpose. It’s obviously a very powerful photo manipulation tool, which happens to have an added bonus of having everything you need to create designs for beautiful web sites and apps.

My Christmas present to myself this year was a Canon 550D camera, with a little prime lens. I’m not quite sure what I hope to achieve with it, but I can never expect to master my field as a visual designer, without understanding the basics of photography.

In August 2013 I wrote a letter to Nestlé. A week later I found myself on the home page of the Daily Mail, and in articles across The Sun, Huffington Post and Yahoo News.