I started taking photos when I got a serious-ish SLR camera in the late 1970s. A Zenit(h) Russian made, heavy manual focus ( and very rough exposure ) camera. But with quite a good lens. Used a lot of Black&White film as it was cheaper especially when you developed and printed it yourself. Moved onto Canon equipment with 2 AE1 bodies and a few lenses. Not the top quality stuff but reasonable. Started taking slide film too for colour shots. Went to Canterbury Camera Club for ~ 10 years and entered competitions and also did some judging myself. The 90s were quiet photo-wise but when digital arrived I started getting interested again. Now use a 4/3 Olympus system but in my opinion it doesn't really matter what you're using. As we all know, 99% of photos are taken with phones these days and they produce good interesting images. ( Possibly by chance of course ! ) Now I'm scanning a lot of my old negatives and slides. Unfortunately I didn't store them very well so the quality of the scans isn't great. But I remark that I seemed to like simplistic images for their power and impact. And I think I took some care with composition and where it didn't work, I used cropping and darkroom techniques to try and make the image more like I wanted and possibly originally saw it. I was, and still am, entranced with B&W Infra-Red film effects and a few of my original images are here and still fill me with awe and wonder. The wonder of how I had the ideas in the first place in fact, as a lot of them I planned before-hand ! The first 2 below for instance ( "A Child's World" and "A Glimpse of an Elf" ). Am trying to rekindle that vision from time to time.

There's also 3 Archive albums here. One of our visits to the 'good old days' of the 40s & 50s - in terms of music and fashion I should add ! And also one of my garden which was in Canterbury, UK. I started it in 1996 and left it in 2019 so over 20 years. It was a labour of love and passion and gave me and my wife, Chris, so much pleasure and enjoyment. I filled it with hundreds - probably thousands - of plants. Not all survived but it was very interesting to learn and try again. The other album is of Chris. She died in 2010 and we had been together for 40 years. I can't say more really. Thanks if any of you have read this far !! My best wishes, Andy