bio

Photographer-author Simon Stafford has accrued a wealth of experience during nearly thirty years involvement with photography. Throughout his photographic career, he has worked, almost exclusively, with the Nikon camera system.

Following a string of successes in photographic competitions, he became - and has remained for the past twenty years - a regular contributor to many popular U.K. photography magazines, including Professional Photographer, Photography Monthly, Practical Photography, and Digital SLR Photography. More recently, the tables have been turned as he has been invited to judge a number of photography competitions on behalf of both Fujifilm and Kodak.

Simon’s involvement with photography stretches back to his days at university in Scotland, where his interest in photographing the landscape first evolved. Since then, his work has been published widely in books, magazines, travel brochures, and calendars, photographing many subjects including, sport, portraits, travel, nature, and even on occasions the weddings of friends!

Passionate about photography, Simon is always keen to share his knowledge and experience, presenting photographic workshops and seminars on a wide variety of topics, regularly, to many audiences in the U.K. He also contributes his time and photography to document the work of several U.K. based charities that promote health care in third world countries.

Technical Editor to Nikon Owner magazine, he is the author of the Nikon Compendium, and has written a number of books as part of the Magic Lantern guidebook series, including the Guide to the Nikon AF Speedlight System, Guide to the Nikon D200, Guide to the Nikon D80, Guide to the Nikon D70/D70s, Guide to the Nikon D50, Guide to the Nikon D60, Guide to the Nikon D40, and Guide to the Nikon D40x. During 2008 he completed books in the same series on the Nikon D90, D300, D700 and D3 models.