Brian lives at Forest Lake, 20 km south west of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, with his wife Ivanka. He originated from a little coal mining village in County Durham in the north east of England, went to St Aidan's Grammar School in Sunderland and then joined the Royal Air Force in 1967, leaving as a Warrant Officer in 1991. During his service in the military, he was stationed at many places overseas and was involved in the Falklands Conflict and the first Gulf War, Desert Storm. Brian has a love of wildlife photography and produced a photo book "The Lake at Forest Lake" of all the differe...