A BEACONSFIELD man whose earlier jobs included working as a runner on the James Bond movie, GoldenEye, has stepped back from the film industry to focus on his first love, photography.

Jeremy Pelzer, 37, of Woodside Road was head of studios for the newly revived Ealing Studios between 2002 and 2007 and during 2008 was engaged by Elstree Studios as consultant managing director.

But after a career in film production and film location management, he has now moved from moving pictures to stills. Due to work commitments the opporunity arose to further pursue his photography.

He has signed up to Open College of the Arts and is doing a distance learning in photography. Despite only finishing his second year he is already getting paid for jobs.

So what inspired him? He said: "I think form an early age it was something I was keen on. From the age of 20 to 35 I didn't pay too much attention to it.

"I guess it is a mixture of sources. In the back of my mind it is always something I have been enthusiastic about and something I was keen to develop."

He is now to an extent following in the footsteps of his step father, who was exhibitions photographer at the Natural History Museum. He was used as a model by his step father, including in what he describes as an unflattering shot in a gallery devoted to Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species.

Pelzer said his dream job would be to combine the two- taking stills of a feature length film. He has already enjoyed taking stills on the set of a short film, Girls In The Wood.

But he still has his fingers in many pies and continues to help out in the film industry, for which he will always remember the first one he worked on.

He said: "I suppose you always remember the first one you worked on. GoldenEye was such a great crew and group of people and coming together to make the first Bond for seven or eight years. It was thoroughly enjoyable."

His work on set involves taking publicity shots of films whilst they are being made, and more technical shots used by film producers, such as 360 degree images he has taken of Pinewood Studios. Click on the link below for more details.