Alan has lived most of his life in South East Wales close to where the rim of the South Wales Coalfield falls away to the rolling hills of Monmouthshire. He is greatly attached to these landscapes and the world class scenery they offer. His rambles through them give plenty of opportunity to indulge in a little photography. He now lives within the Blaenavon World Heritage Site and, as someone who trained as a geologist, he takes a particular pleasure in its much recovered but still industrially scarred scenery, which records the fascinating interplay between the natural environment and man's changing attitudes towards it. Much of Alan's working life has revolved, in one way or another, around the natural world and our species evolving perspectives of it and our place in it. His consultancy web site can be found at www.aupartnerships.com Alan has also spent a lifetime exploring "interior landscapes" and his ramblings through these are detailed at www.openfoot.net