Nottingham Evening Post photographer Tony Stocks is proud to be called a "silver surfer".

Tony, who will be 59 in January, runs his own website www.nottsinfo.co.uk which combines tourism information with examples of his photography and articles about digital cameras.

Tony explained: "I got interested in websites a couple of years ago, and 18 months ago I started a photographic site. Six months later I started the North Notts one, and eventually I merged them together."

He explained that the interest in websites came out of an interest in computers which started some 15 years ago.

"I am self-taught - in everything, including photography," he said.

When he left school, Tony's first job was as a Telegram boy. He later worked as a postman before training as an engineer.

A hobby of photography, which started through taking baby photos of his son Paul - now 31 - eventually led to the offer of work as a freelance photographer for the Notts Free Press in Sutton-in-Ashfield. Later, when a staff job came up, it was offered to Tony. In 1992 he moved across to the Nottingham Evening Post.

During the last four years he has carried out research and written a number of reports on digital photography, and is ambition now is to see it introduced at the Post.

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