As a teenager I bought a Halina 35mm compact then a Zenit and got quite into taking photos - though it was too expensive to do much out of my pocket money!

Later I had a Pentax meSuper then an Olympus XA for years, but only really for holiday photos.

Then at the beginning of January 2010, I got my first digital camera and first computer, . I discovered I could take as many as I wanted. This was particluarly handy as most of my photos are taken with my kids in tow, and they don't give you much time to compose!

Then I discovered my computer had "F-Spot" editing allowing me to crop and recolour, making up for all the defencies of my quick snaps.

In 2011 I learnt how to post them all onto flickr, so on when 500 at once before I realised that wasn't the way to do it - thanks to lomokev.

And now my computer won't work properly and I can't put photos on from my camera anymore.

Friends have often complemented me, and now I seem to be taking the uncharacteristic step of promoting myself.

I don't earn much and have a family to support, but at some point I hope to get a Digital SLR, and a fully working computer, with photoshop.

Here's my flickriver

www.flickriver.com/photos/brightondj/

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