Gordon Simm
Gordon SimmGordon is a semi-retired engineer, a long-distance walker and a keen photographer. He was born a "townee" but always loved the countryside, and in the early eighties he moved with his young family to rural North Yorkshire on the edge of the North Yorks Moors National Park.
An enthusiastic bird-watcher, Gordon's interest in photography grew as he developed his skills in using a camera to record landscape and wildlife. His first venture into long-distance walking was on the Cleveland Way in 1989. Since leaving full-time work in 2003, he has completed several other National Trails and Recreational Paths, and has enjoyed many hill-walking trips in the Lake District and Scotland.
Some of his images have been published in five previous Rucksack Readers, notably the Coast to Coast and Dales Way. In 2011 he won the title "Photographer of the Year" in a Panasonic Lumix competition and had his photos showcased at the Focus-on-Imaging 2011 event at the NEC. Hadrian's Wall Path was his first book as co-author and principal photographer, and Cleveland Way his second.