Ian Castle

I am an engineer and manager by profession and an ornithologist by desire.

Bird watching and bird study have been major preoccupations throughout my life. I started to photograph birds to illustrate WEA lectures and then gradually moved to photographing the land birds' use of, and man's effect on, these habitats.

In 1980 I attended a Raymond Moore course at Paul Hill's Photographers' Place . They were both kind and encouraging about my efforts to illustrate a new edition of Birds of Kent and thus my interest in photographing the landscape. I am particularly interested in how man places objects and how those objects are absorbed into the land.

I have found that many of my pictures contain parallel lines running to the horizon.Perhaps I may still be influenced by my early fascination with a jigsaw puzzle, given to me when I was four, which showed the Flying Scotsman locomotive with the rails converging into the distance.