A lifetime with a camera
"I have had a camera in my hand since I was 11 years old, when I was given one by my parents after sitting a school entrance exam. It was a simple roll-film Ilford Sporti, but within five years I had progressed to a 35mm single lens reflex. Since then, I have owned many others: currently I work almost entirely in digital with Nikons, although I still occasionally use medium format and large format film, and I generally keep digital manipulation to the minimum.
“My passion for photography has not led me down a single path for subject matter. I enjoy new challenges, and regularly involve myself in landscape, travel and studio work. Being a member of the Royal Photographic Society and of a local camera club keeps me in touch with a wider world; club competitions help to sharpen skills and enthusiasm, but club photography is only a small part of my life behind the camera.
“Photography allows me to express what I feel about the world outside me. The desolation of a remote coastline, the intricacy of a spider’s web, or the beauty of an Indian wedding – these things stir up a reaction in me that I feel compelled to record in the best way that I find possible: the photographic medium. Although I enjoy landscape photography - like most photographers living near the lovely British coast, as I do - it is not sufficient in itself. I simply try to record, for myself, what I think is beautiful, interesting or otherwise worthwhile. Others may agree, or disagree, with my choices"
“My passion for photography has not led me down a single path for subject matter. I enjoy new challenges, and regularly involve myself in landscape, travel and studio work. Being a member of the Royal Photographic Society and of a local camera club keeps me in touch with a wider world; club competitions help to sharpen skills and enthusiasm, but club photography is only a small part of my life behind the camera.
“Photography allows me to express what I feel about the world outside me. The desolation of a remote coastline, the intricacy of a spider’s web, or the beauty of an Indian wedding – these things stir up a reaction in me that I feel compelled to record in the best way that I find possible: the photographic medium. Although I enjoy landscape photography - like most photographers living near the lovely British coast, as I do - it is not sufficient in itself. I simply try to record, for myself, what I think is beautiful, interesting or otherwise worthwhile. Others may agree, or disagree, with my choices"
