Over the years I, like many photographers, have suffered from Gear Acquisition Syndrome, always chasing the latest piece of kit, buying shiny things from the Photography Show at the NEC and poring over eBay listings of the obscure and unloved in the hope of striking treasure.

In more recent years maybe I've grown up? I haven't in the rest of my life so who knows. I have however become aware that the kit I'm using is getting me the results I want, and that money spent on photography would be better spent on hotel rooms and fuel to get to locations the the latest shiny tat.

I've been using a Canon 5D Mk3 since they came out, it's a workhorse of a thing, has been through some truly awful weather with me, got cold, got hot, travelled the world with me, sat on mountain sides, and midge infested Scottish lochs, been slung around boats with me, spent an idyllic season working the west coast of Scotland on a small cruise ship, rampaged across the land trying to catch the last glimmer of sunset and has been a really good asset. With it I have a few lenses, I did have a 17-40 F4 but that burnt down in a car fire whilst leant to a friend! My main lens is the 24-105 F4 kit lens. It's a useful focal range, it's not the fastest but I'm very rarely shooting wide open, it's Image Stabilisation isn't the last word in technology but unless I'm on a boat I'm shooting off a tripod and it's switched off. If I want to go longer I've got a 135mm F2 Canon L Series, which is a beautiful bit of glass. Ideal for shallow depth of field and it also takes a 1.4x converter well if I need something longer still. I've got a couple of oddball lenses for the Canon, a 24mm TSE tilt and shift which allows for camera movements for architectural work and specialist depth of field jobs, and a 14mm ultra wide lens, useful for astrophotography.

Another camera I use is a Sigma Quattro DP0, which is a truly unusual piece of kit. It has a different type of sensor, called Foveon, which gives files which feel very much like those coming out of my medium format digital gear I rarely use now. It's a very wide angle (equivalent of 21mm on full frame. It's a strange looking thing but great fun to use.

All my shots are off tripods, I use a pair of Gitzo carbon fibre units, a Mountaineer for lighter weight and an Explorer which allows you to set the legs at any angle, handy when jammed between rocks on a Scottish stream, or getting a low angle on a beach. On these tripods I use Manfrottos excellent geared heads, allowing for precise levelling and movement, to ensure I get exactly what I want in the frame, and, possibly more importantly, exclude what I want out of the frame. Both heads are equipped with Arca Swiss clamps, with my cameras on L brackets so I can go from landscape to portrait orientation quickly.

I'm of the old school belief that prefers to do as much work in the camera in the field so I use Lee Filters to balance bright skies against dark foregrounds, circular polarisers to cut reflections in water etc.

Editing is done on a MacBook Air M1, a wonderful powerful and light piece of kit which means I can edit whilst away travelling. I use Capture One Pro from Phase One (and have done for many years) and of course Adobe Photoshop, the industry standard.

Beyond that its the usual landscape photographer fit out, plenty of warm coats, gloves, boots etc.