I knew that was something that grown ups often said, and although on some occasions I did attempt to imagine what the area looked liked before it was a B&Q and car park, most of the time it meant little to me.

A few weeks ago I hosted the immensely talented Photographer Andy Feltham to a morning's shoot in my fair home town of Birmingham. The urban sprawl and fine examples of brutalist architecture had my guest in eager anticipation for the shoot, however; there was only one problem -  the examples of 1960s concrete creations are rapidly disappearing...

Him: " Do you know 500 people have told me that I am the most interesting person they have met that day."

My office move has finally happened and I am now used to my new home. To mark the occasion - the building opening, not me moving in to it, its official  opening ceremony took place a few  weeks ago along with a section of my ...

There he is, keeping guard whilst his mate takes a lunch time pee in to a shop doorway. He's doing his best to look intimidating and is trying to work out how much of a threat I am with my camera....

Just before leaving for the annual family summer holiday my usual worries surfaced, wondering if I would be rolled back in to the sea by concerned whale watchers or whether my neon white skin reflecting in to the eyes is a potential public safety hazard.

What is your first memory? Mine, I think,  is aged 4 sitting on the back seat of my Dad's Morris Minor Traveller. I can see it now; the vivid deep maroon interior and the hot, cracked leather seats against my soft chubby legs...

Now that the future predicted in Back to the Future is in the past, 2015 saw releases of equipment and camera technology from the likes of Canon, Nikon and Sony going way beyond our futuristic expectations. Not that you would always be able to tell just by looking at them. I'm not sure if it is the uncertainty of our present times but we no longer have the confident, Utopian designs and visions of the future.