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My first serious camera was bought for me by my father in about 1970. It was a Pentax Spotmatik 1000. Pentax had pioneered the SLR and spot metering. To have a camera capable of taking pictures at 1/1000 sec was quite a thing then. I purchased a 35mm wideangle lebse and a 200mm manual telephoto.I took the camera to Uganda and used it for wildlife and landscapes, using mainly Agfa 50ASA Slide film. I preferred the browns of Agfa to the blues of Kodak, as that suited the colours. On returning to the UK and more temperate climates I switched to Ektachrome and Kodak print. This camera suited me for many years.

In the mid 90s I moved to Autofocus and purchased a Pentax MZ5n with a standard 35-90 lense and additionally an 80-300 telezoom. This was replaced by an MX3 when the other got water damage. I used Kodak professional range of films. About four years ago I got a negative scanner to enable me to digitalise my shots. I then got frustrated by those who developed my shots scratching the negatives after processing. Some were almost wrecked by carelessness, which of course they denied and blamed on the camera casing. Strangely when I found someone who would send the films to a more careful lab the scratching stopped! I really prefer the look of analogue pictures, even if they have been digitalised in the processing. However, the only way to combat the scratched negatives eventually became to go digital. So I now have a Pentax K7. I use the MZ3’s lenses (great that Pentax facilitate this, unlike some other manufacturers) and a 18-55 standard lense.

My photography speciality is really landscapes but in the website I have included a wide variety of shots. The one thing I have few shots of is people - the model release licence deters me! I am always wanting to improve so, though there is no facility to add comments, please send them to me by email (see the contact page)

Burnham Market, Norfolk, Christmas 2011