I ended up with two main pastimes involving photography - bushwalking and train chasing. Both developed quickly once I'd left school and got a job and both are represented here in my Flickr account.

Sometimes, over the years I’ve wished I'd chased a particular train tour on a particular weekend, instead of going on a bushwalking trip, and vice versa. Oh well, one can’t do everything! I've still ended up with hundreds if not thousands of colour slides and digital images and will try to get a good selection of them to Flickr as the years go by.

Don't expect an ordered history or comprehensive display of the subjects of my hobbies. The circumstances lean more to the production of an eclectic archive! :)

So, why put up scans of old Kodachrome slides taken in National Parks or railway activitities when much more glorious shots from modern digital cameras can turn out so much better?

Well, I see them as a window on the recent past, say from the last 40 years, and it's amazing to see how much the world has been recorded as having changed in that time!

I hope you find them interesting, and enjoy my attempts to capture those moments of beauty, spectacle and history; so much has changed for the worse since most of these pictures were taken.

A side hobby has developed alongside train photography, where I have made a couple of thousand audio recordings of the more spectacular efforts of tour and regular service trains. In the dead of night, when the cameras are packed away, the audio gear can be unpacked, for the best acoustics most often occur at that time. You can blame the spectacle of double 60 Class on Fassifern Bank for that!

Unfortunately, Flickr doesn’t allow audio recordings to be posted, so you’ll have to take my word for it!

Keep those comments coming; they are always appreciated. Oh, and please, corrections and harsh cricisms should be sent via Flickrmail. :-)