I was born in the Veneto region of Italy, in the Colli Euganei just inland from Venice, in my grandmother’s flat surrounded by my Italian family. Because my father was British and working in London, my family returned to the UK shortly after my birth, and it was there that I was educated and have lived ever since. At school I was drawn more to science than art, and that path continued through university, culminating in a PhD in Medicine—a route rather different from that of the rest of my family. Yet creative influence was always present in the background, woven through family life and early experience. With my maternal grandmother in Italy, long childhood summers were spent back in the land of my birth. Those visits were instrumental in forming the deep emotional and cultural connection to Italy that continues to shape my life. It was also during those years that the work of one of my uncles, a professional artist, first opened my eyes to art and laid the foundations for my appreciation of photography as an art form. Photography has long been something I returned to intermittently, whenever inspiration or opportunity arose. Now, in retirement, I am able to pursue it seriously and full-time as a second career, exploring a creative side of myself that remained largely dormant throughout my scientific life. For convenience I have often described myself as a landscape photographer, though I am not entirely comfortable with that label. While landscapes do feature prominently—especially those involving water—the subjects I photograph are broader than that. My work ranges from landscapes and seascapes to life beneath the surface of the sea, as well as more eclectic images that emerge from a spontaneous urge to release the shutter. Given my heritage, a major focus of my attention as a photographer has been directed at Venice. Exhibited internationally this body of work presents the city and the surrounding waterscapes not as picturesque subjects, but as enduring sites of cultural memory and aesthetic inquiry. Whatever the subject, my motivation is rooted in emotional connection. My approach has become contemplative, seeking to convey a sense of place, and perhaps escapism, shaped in part by photography’s therapeutic role in my life. Through my images, I hope to evoke calmness and tranquility, inviting the viewer to pause, reflect, and share in the emotional response I felt at the moment of capture.