Where it all began...

There is a bloke on Youtube that dances with people. He doesn't bore his friends with hundreds of albums of him doing tourist-y things, he takes a short video showing him dancing with a wide variety of people and then he puts it on the internet and nobody's Facebook page is ever assaulted by 200+ photos than no-one really wants to see.

Taking photos and videos can be and indeed is art; I love taking artistic pictures or making mini-movies. It would appear that most people don't think like I do. I want to see outside-the-box thinking when I am subjected to other people's holiday photos and so in a stand to remove the bone-crunching boredom that my friends will endure when looking through my photos on Facebook I began to collate a series of pictures.

Taking a picture of someone jumping involves skill. Gone are the days of 'point and press'. I therefore decided that I would give my friends on Facebook a highlights package of the places I have visited, putting one picture from each place in an album. The name of that album... Where have you jumped?

I have so far jumped in 9 countries, on my own, with a whole host of friends, up high, down low, inside and out, in winter, spring, summer or, ahem, fall, on three birthdays, and off endless shin-high objects.

But there was one place it had to start - one picture that had to set the ball rolling.

The Beginning

Tuscany, 2005

It was on holiday with many and varied members of my family that we began to experiment with the jumping photo as an art. It became a compulsion to get a better picture each time - higher, crazier poses, better views. I don't know if you'll agree, but as the one that set the ball rolling, it's not a bad effort.