About Glen

I’ve always believed that great photography is equal parts craft, curiosity, and timing — and my career has been shaped by all three.

I was using email and the internet from the moment they became available, back in the days of dial‑up modems, when checking your inbox meant unplugging the phone line and listening to a chorus of digital screeches. While most photographers were still relying on Yellow Pages ads and film labs, I built one of the first photographer websites in the UK — hand‑coded, uploaded over FTP, and years ahead of the industry. It transformed my business overnight. Clients could see my work online long before that was normal, and for a couple of years I was fully booked simply because I’d stepped into the future before everyone else.

The same thing happened with digital photography. I’d been using Photoshop for six years before digital cameras were good enough for professional work. So when the technology finally caught up, I didn’t have to learn digital editing — I was already fluent. While other photographers tried to scare clients away from digital, I embraced it, refined it, and built workflows that delivered consistency, quality, and speed long before the rest of the industry caught up.

That early‑adopter mindset has stayed with me. I’ve always been drawn to systems, structure, and clarity — not for the sake of being technical, but because great photography deserves a great workflow behind it. Whether I’m shooting a wedding, designing a tutorial, or refining a digital process, I’m always looking for the most elegant, maintainable, future‑proof way to do things.

Alongside my photography work, I spent 15 years teaching hundreds of beginners and next‑steps photographers and Photoshop students at North Herts College, a major local college in Hertfordshire. Those classroom years shaped the way I write and teach today. I’ve seen first‑hand what beginners struggle with, what confuses them, what unlocks their confidence, and what makes the lightbulb switch on. My tutorials — and even the way I edit drafts — are built on that experience: clear, structured, jargon‑free guidance designed for real learners, not experts.

I’m proud of the reputation I built there. My classes were consistently full, my student feedback was exceptional, and on my site you’ll find a page filled with photos of handwritten comments from students — every one of them warm, personal, and wonderfully encouraging. Teaching wasn’t just something I did alongside photography; it became a core part of how I think about communication, clarity, and helping people grow.

Photography has changed a lot since those dial‑up days, but the core of what I do hasn’t: I help people look their best, feel their best, and remember their best moments — supported by a workflow, a teaching philosophy, and a technical foundation that have been evolving since the very first days of the internet.