| I personally never had the chance of a University | | | | academic or technical. |
| education, but today this all has changed, with a | | | | I was not at all academic. Thoughts of going to |
| computer and access to the internet. | | | | University were never considered. Computers were |
| My father was born in a small mining village in the | | | | expensive and only just becoming available. |
| valleys of Wales in the United Kingdom. His education | | | | I managed to get one "O"level examination and left |
| was curtailed at the age of 12 to be sent to work | | | | school to work in the photographic department of a |
| down a coal mine. Computers had not been invented. | | | | printing company. Whilst in their employ I went to |
| His aim for his only son was that he would have the | | | | college to study photography one day a week. Using |
| education he never had. | | | | for the first time a personal computer and here I |
| Hence I was educated through the State system, | | | | attained a City & Guilds diploma in Commercial |
| which had me taking an exam at the age of eleven | | | | Industrial Photography. |
| to determine if my education was to become | | | | |