AMATEUR photographer, lecturer and judge, Peter Upton, has died aged 75.

From the studio at his home in Longfields, Bicester, he sent photographs to exhibitions all over the world.

He won awards from the Federation of International Artistic Photographers.

Mr Upton was a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and a member of its national council. He also served on the executive committee of the society’s creative photography group.

In 1987, he was one of only a handful of photographers to have two prints included in the A Day for Life book, which was sold for a cancer charity.

Mr Upton gave lectures to camera clubs all over the country. He also judged at many club competitions.

He wore glasses with thick lenses, prompting another photographer to joke: “He can’t see, his photographs are not sharp, yet he keeps on winning prizes!”

He took up photography as a hobby in the mid-1960s after he broke a leg in a cycling accident.

Until then he had been a cyclist in the Oxford City Road Club.

He began work as a butcher for the International Stores in Swindon, later transferring to the Oxford store.

In 1958, he moved to Oxford Radiators and later was an administrative officer at the Army’s Ordnance Depot in Bicester.

Mr Upton leaves wife Jeannette and their two children. A service of thanksgiving was held at Bicester Methodist Church yesterday.