Forgot to say - my great hero then and now was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I was in Barcelona some years ago and, by chance, discovered an exhibition of his original photographs at a major gallery there. He used a Leica with the reflective parts blacked out with tape. Never cropped a photograph - just used his eye to form the compsition - a precept that I've always followed.

We'll never knew what he threw away!

Anyway, it was wonderful to see those prints - many of which I have in books of his work - in the flesh, as it were.

My other photographic hero was Bill Brandt.