ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The capital of Ecuador, at an altitude of 9,350ft (2,850m), has a cool climate in spite of it being only 124 miles (200km) south of the Equator. It has a mix of Spanish colonial red-tile roofs and balconies and American-Indian art and architecture. Quito is built on the ruins of an Incan city. UNESCO says it is the best-preserved and least-altered city in Latin America.

AUTHOR
I have been a professional journalist all my working life and sometimes my press articles have been illustrated by my photos. I have been a reporter and sub-editor on daily and Sunday newspapers in Sydney (Australia) and London (England) and for 30 years published and edited management newsletters circulated to the food, retail and media industries in Australia.

My Monochrome Awards entries were photographed on a trip through 30 countries in Asia, North, Central and South America and Africa. Since then I have traveled through 29 other countries, making a total of 59. I particularly enjoy photographing ordinary people in under-developed countries and asking them about their lives.

I am married to Margaret, have two children, Trish and Jacki, and live in an inner suburb of Sydney, Australia.

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