Bob Webzell effectively taught himself photography when an opportunity in his health service career took him, and his first camera, to West Africa for almost four years at the end of the 80s. Process-paid slides were then and remain today the medium of choice and virtually all images were taken on Canon EOS SLR cameras.

Bob joined his first camera club, Brighton and Hove C.C. in 1992 and found there the encouragement, enthusiasm, competition and help that develops new members into confident, competent club photographers within a few years. In 1997 Bob joined the NPP, a postal portfolio assessed by some of the UK's top nature photographers, and in 1998 Bob was made President of Brighton & Hove Camera Club.

Inspired by fellow members, Bob sought Royal Photographic Society membership and the Licentiate distinction in 1998.

Unsure of which was the strongest, a panel of African wildlife and a pictorial panel of Venice were submitted for LRPS and both passed well on the same day.

An Associateship of the RPS was the next major distinction and, unable to return to Africa, Bob and his wife Sandra returned to Venice to take more photographs. In April 2000 Bob submitted the successful ARPS Visual Arts panel displayed on this site.

Since the time of the site launch in Autumn 2000, Bob, a Senior Lecturer at Thames Valley University, has completed his Presidency and is now Secretary of Brighton and Hove Camera Club. Bob has built on his reputation as a solo and international exhibitor and is now a regular photographic lecturer and judge in South East England. Bob is the UK Co-ordinator of the Tanzanian charity Aang Serian, so Africa features significantly again in his work.