Dell  Ultrasharp 2407WFP WXGA

24"  Widescreen LCD Monitor connected via DVI

Thermaltake Aluminium Windowed Case with Hiper 580w PSU

AMD Athlon64 X2 5200+ (Dual Core) Socket AM2 Processor 1GB L2 400mhz FSB 

4GB (2 x2GB Dimms) PC2-6400 OCZ 800mhz DDR2 RAM

Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 Motherboard

1 x 500GB 7200rpm SATA Seagate Barracuda Hard drive

1 x 160GB 7200rpm IDE Seagate Barracuda  Hard Drive (dedicated to photo storage)

2x 120GB 7200rpm SATA Seagate Barracuda  Hard Drive (dedicated to photo storage)

300GB Maxtor External Hard drive (backup copies of photos)

MSI Geforce 7800GTO 512MB PCI Express Graphics Card

NEC Dual layer DVD+/-R/RW Drive (all photo's are backed up onto DVD's - dual layer allows up to 8GB per Dual layer DVD)

LG Dual layer DVD+/-R/RW/RAM Drive

Epson R2400 Professional A3+ size photo printer.

Produces stunning large format photo prints y, using 8 individual ink tanks.

Pigment ink offer 80 years+ light fastness for long lasting prints.  The printer can also print Borderless Panoramic images up to 13" x 44".

Colour calibrated to the monitor using Colourvision Printercal and Photocal software.

Colourvision USB Spyder with Optical software.

Measures the screens output and automatically adjusts it to internationally recognised colour standards.   The resultant colourspace is then used in Photoshop and printing to ensure full system colour matching.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 (Photoshop 9):- Industry standard photo imaging software - Used purely to enhance what is already in the photo and to make minor adjustments, - I believe that photo's should be taken and not made!!

Phase One Capture One Pro

Adobe Lightoom

Photomatix Pro:- HDR creation software

Panorama Factory - Panoramic stitching software