Tom Ormerod

"I am a family man with a wife and 2 girls, living in Bournemouth on the south coast of England. When I am not standing knee deep in water or doing an impression of a mountain goat on the side of a cliff, I work as an IT Consultant and specialise in the Education sector. I have always been around cameras and photography but only recently found my niche. I had a hand-me-down Pentax Spotmatic Film camera when I was a teenager (quite a few years ago now), then a 2MP Kodak DC5000 digital camera in 2000 and then followed by a couple of Fuji bridge cameras. I advanced to an entry-level DSLR - a Canon 350D around 2007 and next a 650D in 2010 but I never really got past basic aperture/shutter priority modes and family snaps. I am now an Olympus shooter using their OM-D EM1 MkII camera and an array of lenses. I shoot primarily seascapes and I love shots that have a lot of close foreground detail."