I travel the world with my cameras. I am a Walkley Award-nominated journalist and a best-selling novelist.

My photography-based blog, called Authorblog, was selected in February 2009 as a Blog Of Note by Google. I mentor hundreds of writers and photographers from around the world.

As a photographer, I follow simple rules. I never use filters. I never crop my images. And I never enhance them electronically. What you see is exactly what I shoot.

How do I decide what to shoot? I stop and swing my camera up every time a colour or a sight catches my eye. Which is fairly often!