When I was about 11 years old I couldn't figure out how a little box with something called a lens could produce a moment in time as a photograph, it's what they called them when people used to share photographs they took with their cameras. My grandmother bought me a simple point and shoot that took 120 film from Woolworths, it had a simple wireframe type view finder and produced some good looking images. One day, bored out of all reasons for being 11 years old I took the camera with film in it that had exposures of the day before into the bathroom and had a look at it, I couldn't see anything when I took the film out, nothing at all. The experience was, to put it mildly, disappointing. I never actually owned my own camera after that point but was always asked to take a photograph using someone else's camera.

Fast forward 5 years and passing a camera shop I saw a Pentax Spotmatic in the window of a camera shop, I could never figure out how the person using this camera could see what they were photographing, I couldn't see a viewfinder and it was something that kept me awake at night. I did eventually find the courage to go into the shop and ask about this viewfinder less camera. That was the beginning of my journey into where I am now.

I'm retired now and over the years have owned and used many cameras, they were all SLR's, my favourite was the Canon Pelix which I got second hand in 1975 with a f1.8 50.mm lens, wow, it blew my socks off and it was so quiet people used to ask, "Did I take A Shot". I had it for many years but as things go and change over many years I ended up with my second best camera the Olympus OM-1 and now I have a collection of computerised image takers. The OM-D E-M5, OM-D E-M5 II, and the OM-D E-M10 and enjoy getting lenses from the time where the Pentax Spotmaitic was the go to 35mm camera. I love the buying, trying, and the sometimes selling them on. I've kept a few, the Tamron 500mm f8 mirror, the 70-210mm f3.8-4 zoom (46 A), a Tamron "x Adaptall 2 teleconverter, the Adaptall 28mm f2.8, some Weston Master light meters, well, photography isn't just about taking photographs is it?