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�Show me the way to go home���

Title borrowed from an old music hall song - but quite relevant in the early days of aviation history. The aircraft depicted in the image are Bristol Fighters serving with the Royal Flying Corps in 1917. It was only seven years previously that the first aviation licence was granted in the UK and now there were many hundreds of young men, not only flying, but using their machines to fight in deadly aerial battles over Flanders.

In the early days of aviation history the weather was as big an adversary as the enemy forces and many aircraft were lost to unforeseen bad weather - maintaining safe flight and finding home base, or indeed any base, was a significant achievement in itself

Have been interested in photography since just after WW2, when film became freely available again, using Kodak Autographic equipment. Graduated, in the 50's, to 35mm and was involved in photographic work during my 17 yrs as RAF aircrew - navigator. Since retirement and migrating to Canon digital equipment have been involved with two of my sons and one grandson in a considerable amount of photographic activity, particularly composite images. Now producing digital art prints with the major emphasis on classic warbird aviation. With son, Duncan, now becoming a well-known and published wild life photographer we have started, in 2017, a new gallery reflecting Scottish sea birds - and 'feathered' flight