About the Author

David Noton was born in 1957 and split his childhood between England, California and Canada. After leaving school in 1976 he spent four years as a deck officer in the Merchant Navy, before trying his hand a number of different professions, including working in a glue factory, as a motorcycle courier, a window cleaner and a gardener, before finally returning to college in Gloucester in 1982 to study photography.

Graduating in 1985, David turned freelance and has concentrated primarily on landscape, nature and travel photography ever since, winning the landscape category of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award in 1985,1989 and 1990. He married Wendy in 1987, and together they run their successful photography business from Milborne Port near Sherborne on the Somerset-Dorset border, and travel the world in search of picture opportunities.

Today David’s work is published around the globe. Every month he licenses in excess of 100 images to publishing, advertising and the news media. During the last 20 years he has photographed much of the National Trust’s landscape and coastline, which has featured in many high-profile publications and several highly acclaimed photographic exhibitions. Additionally he sells art prints and writes on travel and photography themes for magazines worldwide, including a monthly column in Practical Photography. This is his first book.