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I first took up photography around the late 1960s but, due to work commitments and a certain amount of dissatisfaction, I lost interest during the mid/late 1980s. I bought a DSLR in 2007 to take photos for a website, but only got back into photography more seriously in 2015 after updating to later cameras and on retirement. Always a fan of Pentax cameras, I don't normally plan photos and rarely use a tripod as I like the freedom to respond to what I see - particularly with changing skies and sunsets.

 

I prefer to see strong colours and images, and set the cameras and exposures along with using polarising filters to produce that style of result. I shoot for myself, and simply hope others will also enjoy the pictures. Having learnt my photography using SLRs and colour slide film, I prefer and aim to take a picture "in the camera", but I do use UFRAW and GIMP to reproduce the image I(think I) saw when pressing the shutter button.

 

Please explore my photostream and/or albums - I hope you enjoy the images.

 

Please do not invite me to join groups which require their members to comment on others' images after posting an image, or to use comment codes. I am happy to comment when I consider it appropriate and when I choose to do so. If, despite this, I am invited to join such a group or add images, I will take the invite as waiving the group rules in my case.

 

Will group admins please keep their group rules simple and not open to too much "interpretation". I do not knowingly add images to a group that do not comply with my understanding of the group rules. If an image is rejected I always check back against the group rules to find out if it is my mistake. If the rejected photo appears to comply with the group rules, which are therefore unclear, I will leave the group. I do not want to waste my time with such groups.

 

Bear in mind that I will rarely "fave" an image unless its settings allow me to enter it into one of my galleries - wading through pages of random faves is a pet hate and, if the image is of a place, it must carry a location in the title or additional description. I will also check the profile of anyone who follows me, and if there are no public images, and/or there are what I consider unsuitable photos within any images or favourites, you will be blocked.

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