I have been interested in photography since I was in my teens. My first SLR camera was a Russian built Zenith I bought with money I was given for my 21st birthday in 1966. This was a fully manual camera, basic & heavy but it had a good lens.

Over the years I progressed through Praktica, Pentax, Minolta and as cameras became more sophisticated I used them solely in automatic mode. When the digital era arrived this

reawakend my interest in using a camera to its full potential, rather than relying on the camera to make all the decisions. I now use a Nikon 7300 with several lenses.