My passion for cricket has always been with me. As a younger person often dreamed of being able to play at the highest level, and when not participating at club level could be found at the boundary edge at Essex, marvelling at how the media got such close up images of the action. A brief spell with Chelmsford Colts, led to playing days at Writtle, Pleshey and for a season Chignal before eventually deciding to pad up. Only recently have I had sufficiently appropriate equipment that allows me to capture the shots I dreamed of playing or perfecting, and never managed.