I am a native of Edinburgh, Scotland and I have lived permanently in Sydney, Australia from 1981-2026. I have travelled seventeen road trips and driven 200,000 miles across the Great Plains of the United States of America from 1981-2013. This extensive field work has seen the writing and publishing of six books and booklets plus two second editions through Andrew Hogarth Publishing. In 1998 my Powwow: Native American Celebration Photographic Exhibition was one of only fourteen art-forms worldwide selected for a three year national tour of America by Non For Profit Missouri based touring company Exhibits USA 2000-2003. In 2008 I exhibited my Great Plains: The American West Retrospective 1981-2006 photographic film exhibition at Sydney's St. Vincent's Hospital as part of their Healing Arts Program. In 2013 I spoke at the inaugural Newcastle Writers Festival in New South Wales, Australia and the following year in early 2014 I again exhibited my digital image collection Native America: Dinetah to the Greasy Grass 2008-2013 at St. Vincent's Hospital for a second time. During the period 2000-2001 I wrote and recorded eleven songs for the "Great Plains Volume I" alternative rock and roll album with Australian singer/songwriter Chris Fisher and producer/engineer Adam Barns in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. A second album "Great Plains Volume II" was written and recorded from 2016-2018 once again in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In 2019 I collaborated with "Scripted Minds" screenwriter Josephine Bezzina on the pilot script for "Sacred Arrows" with the research material written and compiled by myself and Cheyenne Peace Chief and Tribal Historian John Sipes Jr 1991-2007. In late September, 2025 I won the Portrait Silver Award for my 1992 image of young Cheyenne Quanah Kaline, Colony, Oklahoma at the 1839 Awards "Photographer of the Year Contest 2025." I also won the Travel Bronze Award for my 1992 image of young Zuni Kai Lamar, Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico and a second Events Bronze Award for my 2011 Feathered Bustle digital image at the Plains Indian Museum Powwow in Cody, Wyoming.