My
interest in photography started when at about ten years old, I
was given a Kodak Brownie 127 as a birthday present. I still have
the camera and some of the first images taken with it, so, at
this early age I can safely say I got the bug and have
taken pictures ever since.
I
began taking a serious interest in photography many years ago
when I embarked on a two year part time City & Guilds 9231 course
at the local Art College, enjoying it so much I built myself a
makeshift darkroom and spent the next few years specialising and
learning to work with monochrome.
Some
years later I felt in need of more inspiration, and knowledge,
so I joined a full time Fine Arts access course covering Ceramics,
life drawing, painting, print making, textiles and of course Photography.
This led me to full time education with the aim of achieving HND
and the icing on the cake, a BA(Hons) degree in graphic design
photography which I completed successfully, and came out the other
end unscathed and with a great sense of achievement. I later made
myself a member of the Royal Photographic Society, where I was
awarded ARPS distinction. After all that I am still and always
will be learning something new about photography.
My main interest now lies in landscape, travel and Documentary
photography, producing mono images in the traditional way, although
in recent years I have been working with colour, and, with the
advent of the digital experience turned to the computer and photoshop,
scanning negs and printing inkjet images. A recently purchased
digital camera has made image capture much quicker for use with
web design, another of my many interests and activities. Making
digital images in the camera has been a new experience for me
and no doubt, although some of the images on this site are produced
in that medium, many more will follow.
