Howard de Winton is a pseudonym under which he publishes his photography. Howard is a retired intensive care specialist physician in Australia. Photography is a consuming hobby. Howard signs his photographs as Howard de Winton, the lower case d of de being the strictly correct form, but Howard De Winton is equally correct. Born in south London and brought up in Kent, England, he entered medicine and his early medical career was in southern England. He migrated to Australia from the UK in 1990. Just as medicine is an art as much as a science, so also photography is for him a science as well as an art. He has been taking photographs since a boy, his first camera being a cheap, fold-up bellows device which still took decent black-and-white photos, at least for that era. For 30 years from his student days he used a Contax 36 mm film camera with a 50 mm Zeiss lens until its light meter eventually gave up. He now shoots with a Phase One XF camera with IQ3 100 Mp digital back and Schneider Kreutznach fixed focal length lenses. His main love apart from medicine is the outdoors, especially the bush and mountains. Any wild place excites him, the more remote from civilisation the better. In recent years he has had some training by Ken Duncan and Mark Gray, two of Australia’s leading landscape photographers. Howard looks for places to photograph where no-one goes, or at times when no-one is about, like 5 o’clock in the morning! Howard de Winton, being trained in physiology, knows that the human visual field is circular (and not two circles side-by-side!), but the horizontal nature of most of our world lends itself to panoramic landscape images, pioneered by Ken Duncan and adopted by many other excellent photographers. However, Howard is not so fond of the very popular 3 by 1 format (aspect ratio 3:1), or other whole number formats such as 4:3 or 3:2 or 16:9, preferring instead aspect ratios that are irrational numbers where possible.