With my wife, Yuriko, in the Kuju mountains of northern Kyushu, Japan, in 2023. At year’s end, 2025, after a year and a half of living in a century-old cottage in (extremely) rural north-western Victoria, we sold up and moved to (extremely) rural Tokushima Prefecture on the fabulous island of Shikoku, Japan.

I grew up roaming the mudflats and mangrove forests of coastal Brisbane. As an adult, I've led a somewhat peripatetic life, and while living in Japan well over two decades ago I began dabbling in photography. The mountains on the western edge of Tokyo were a doorway into an exhilarating and often transcendent realm; I’ve seldom walked anywhere without a camera since, and I walk a lot.

That urge to ramble, camera dangling from my wrist or buried in my pack, has been an integral part of me ever since. A walking route - coastline, urban street, country road, mountain path - is a corridor of chance. I hope you enjoy my artistic responses to some of the characters and landscapes I've enjoyed along the trail.

A helpful handmade sign on the Kumano-kodo pilgrim path, Wakayama, Japan, 2015