I started taking photos at age 8, when my parents bought me a Kodak Brownie 127. Using tips from photographic books and magazines (learning from the masters!) I started composing and experimenting, and had my own darkroom (in the cellar) when I was 13.

My first 35mm camera was a Halina, purchased with my first week's wages. I used it to record my solo trip to Scotland in my mid-teens. In due course I got a more versatile Zenith 35mm and a Zorki. In my teens and early 20s I had a variety of cameras, such as a micro (spy?) camera and some 8mm pocket film cameras. These small frame cameras were novel, but lacked controls, and were quite useless for detail! Polaroids also became more affordable, and I still have memorable shots from those days.

Then came SLRs... and then digital SLRs. I resisted digital for a while, but have succumbed!

Now I can take lots of photos for free, and can even rescue and remedy total disasters with Photoshop!

But most of my pics are shown as shot (or, on occasion, slightly cropped).

Thank you for visiting my flickr pages.

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“At the moment of shooting, (composition) can stem only from our intuition, for we are out to capture the fugitive moment, and all the interrelationships involved are on the move…It very rarely happens that a photograph which was feebly composed can be saved by reconstruction of its composition under the darkroom’s enlarger; the integrity of the vision is no longer there.”

(Henri Cartier-Bresson - The Decisive Moment)

Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson

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