Fresh from his return from America, where he faced charges for his part in a Greenpeace protest, photographer Steve Morgan has been holding an exhibition of his work.

The pictures, on display in his home town of Frome, Somerset, cover his time capturing the environmental pressure group on camera.

Steve, a professional photographer for more than 20 years, walked free from an American court in April after being sentenced to one year's unsupervised probation for trespass.

He had been covering a protest against the 'Star Wars' missile program at Vandenberg Airbase for the group when he was arrested in July last year.

Now safely back at home, Steve has been exhibiting some of his work in Frome, taken during the 17 years he has been covering Greenpeace.

His involvement with the group began in 1985, when he took photographs of a pipe block and chimney climb at a chemical plant in the North of England.

Since then he has documented Greenpeace activities on every continent, from whaling in Antarctica to oil exploration in the Artic.

Steve began his career on a weekly newspaper in Hull before moving on to the Yorkshire Post and then the Independent.

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