North Wales photographer Tom Simone

I live in Bethesda, North Wales and work as a photographer and film maker, doing weddings and commercial stuff.

I used to work at the Daily Post as a digital journalist.
This involved looking after Trinity Mirror’s websites in the region, writing news and feature articles for the paper, taking photographs, and creating videos to go on the Daily Post website. 
I have had writing and photography published in CyclingPlus, the Pioneer, Ink and the Epigram.
I have worked on BBC2’s ‘Ever Wondered About Food…‘ and at the BBC news department in Bangor.

I did an NVQ in Newspapers during the year I was at the Pioneer, a local paper based in Colwyn Bay.

It included covering court stories and being able to write in shorthand at 100wpm.
Before working in the media I trained as a science teacher. My placements were at Ysgol Botwnnog and Ysgol Bodedern, where I taught in Welsh.

I’ve had a few short-term teaching posts, including supply work in inner-London, at Cranleigh Prep school in Surrey, and at Hillgrove in Bangor.

I did a biology degree at Bristol University (2,000 – ‘03), and gained a first for my research project into the light transduction pathways of arabidopsis (a species of cress).  I went to Friars school in Bangor, and Ysgol Dyffryn Ogwen in Bethesda.