The Queen: “I have had the great honour of being one of the first photographers to have had pictures published on the official Buckingham Palace website which, at the time, had only come into being days before. 
“The event was the Queen’s visit to Ferguson’s shipyard where Her Majesty launched a ship and afterwords chatted with the men who built the vessel. 
“Years later, I took this picture of Elizabeth and Prince Philip at the moment when she strained to look at the grandeur of the beautiful Victoria Tower which came into view as the royal transport swung into Cathcart Square.”

Andrew Lloyd Webber: “The composer had come to Greenock to heap praise on what would become Inverclyde’s home of culture, the Beacon Arts Centre. 
“I had the privilege of photographing the great man as Tele reporter Lorraine Tinney interviewed him in some depth. The highlight of the one-to-one, for me at least, was when the Lord enquired of Lorraine as to what her all-time favourite musical was, to which she replied honestly, West Side Story! 
“The great composer took her answer in his stride and with some humour agreed that Bernstein’s musical was indeed a great piece of work – I think he thought the same of Lorraine too!”

Ian Brown: “I got a chance to talk with Stone Roses star Ian in Greenock’s Tontine Hotel before he opened the new music production department of the then James Watt College. 
“Ian admitted he was excited at the prospect of visiting, of all places, Wemyss Bay, as Ethiopean Emperor and spiritual leader Haile Selassie, who was considered by followers of the Rastafari movement to be the returned messiah of the bible, had stayed there during the Second World War. 
“Ian had a wicked sense of humour but also took time to give students at the college an insight into how the top end of the music business works.”

Ranulph Fiennes and Falcon Scott: “I took this picture of famous explorer Ranulph Fiennes and Falcon Scott, grandson of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, when they attended a ceremony in honour of Greenock Antarctic explorer Henry ‘Birdie’ Bowers, who perished on the polar ice cap.
“Picture opportunities were thin on the ground until it struck me that the two men, if stood back to back, would represent something of the steely determination which sums up the spirit of adventure and polar exploration.”

Morrissey: “The former Smiths singer visited Inverclyde in 2006 and during his appearance at Greenock Town Hall, as tradition dictates, he sung a ‘local’ song which was in Greenock’s case “The Bonnie Bonnie Banks Of Loch Lomond” 
“The concert was a fantastic success and is still remembered by many of his fans as one of the best gigs to come to Inverclyde.”