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Photographer who enjoys sailing, walking, travel, and architecture.

I started photography in my teens when I bought a Russian Zinit SLR with a 50 mm lens. I could not afford colour so I took up black and white, processing the film myself and enlarging in a bathroom converted into a dark room.

When I got married I bought a second hand Canon FT SLR with a F1.4 lens. This camera gave me some lovely images and I was now able to afford to use colour images . As part of my engineering, I took photos of equipment failure for the company I worked and in they paid for my work (and home) picture processing and enlarging!

My photos at first centred mainly on making a record of my family as they grew up because work commitments limited my spare time. Later I bought a Canon AE1 which I thought had erratic automatic exposure (much preferred the much slower manual stop down exposure on my old Canon FT) so I quickly part exchanged it for a Canon AE1 program which was much better but still not perfect.

By this time I was running my own chandlery business and simply rarely had a spare moment for photography. After working 31 days non stop, I decided to pack up chandlery and diverted into other investment businesses.

As my spare time grew, I decided to take up photography again. My Canon AEP program was, by this time, still working but bent from being dropped several times. My wife took pity and bought me a Canon EOS 500 with, unfortunately a lousy Sigma zoom. However this new camera renewed my love of photography and because of my other hobbies of sailing and walking etc., I decided to record those things that make Cornwall so enjoyable for me.

I now have several Canon cameras and a case of lenses. It took a while to become proficient at making an electronic computer camera which has a mind of its own do the things I found second nature with my entirely manual cameras I used in my teens!

Update: I am now retired but my photography has got more and more busy. I now use three cameras, Canon G1X, a Canon EOS 7Dmk2, and a Canon EOS 5Dmk4.

I travel a lot with my wife in our Motorhome "Bella" and collect photos for photographic agencies, friends, authors, and companies.

My preferred areas are France, Spain, Italy, Austria where the sun is best but just Cornwall alone has some amazing places to visit and photograph.

I should just like to add that photography gives us something extra to explore on our travels and a purpose; its wonderful!

UPDATE

The wretched coronavirus pandemic has wrecked our travel plans and we are presently limited to the UK. The UK is years behind Europe offering few and pathetic facilities for touring motorhomes. Campsites are frequently fully booked and there are few or no "aires" as on the continent with toilet cassette emptying or refuse or recycling points.

In a few days time we are off to "wet and windy" Scotland with the ambition of visiting a friend on Orkeney and viewing some of the Neolithic history. On our travel north we might get distracted by other "Points of Interest". I hope so!

My camera equipment has changed a little. Juliet uses a Canon G7 mkII camera which replaced my G1X she dropped and broke. The faithful Mk7II has gone and has been replaced by a magical EOS R6. Clearly, mirrorless cameras have advantages for sport/wildlife over the DSLR. I have retained my hard working Canon 5D iv. Now I have tailored my own camera profiles, it gives amazing results. My favourite lens is the now outdated Canon EF 100-400 mkII with a 1.4 mkiii extender.

Stay safe and enjoy your photography.

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