Please check out my albums first :) Do not judge a book by it's cover - as in my photostream - it is not engineered to have eye catching photos on the first page. Instead please have a look at my albums, where things are sorted and ordered the way I would like them seen. My Photostream reflects what I am currently focussing on with my photography.

 

I have passed the milestone of 17,000,000 views of my photos hosted here on Flickr, thanks to all for checking out my work. I enjoy sharing my photos with you all. Thanks to everyone who has posted comments - they are appreciated. I have avoided using watermarks as I don't like to disfigure the images. I just trust people not to pilfer my images for use elsewhere, unacknowledged, for their own profit. The first of my albums here show my photos that have been Explored.

 

I am not really into the tit-for-tat comments and likes to drum up view counts and chase the elusive and coveted 'explored' prize. I just don't have the time to spare. If you add me as a contact I may check out your pics, but may not, sorry in advance.

 

I now have over 65,000 photos on Flickr as I use the website for cloud storage of all my photos. I have uploaded them for family and friends to see, and also to share the places I have travelled with everyone in the world. I have a collection of many thousands more to go through, so many more still to be metadata edited, geo-located and uploaded. I try to have location data on all my photos and am enjoying making use of Google Earth, Google Maps and Street View in this process. It also helps enormously when adding descriptions and titles to images and for adding keyword tags. I am using the Map module in Adobe Lightroom CC Classic to add the geo-location metadata. My pet hate is seeing a nice image on Flickr with no description or location, diminishes the value of putting photography online IMO, and also makes it very hard to find via searching.

 

I live in Australia. Nice part of the world. I tinker with all kinds of digital art software programs on my Apple Mac 27inch 5K or Macbook Pro laptop and I also like taking photos - especially when traveling.

 

I also take videos where I travel, but they are second fiddle to my photo taking. You can see my channel here, loads of videos are here, all in 1080p HD:

www.youtube.com/c/serendigity

 

My current main camera is a Fujifilm X-T5 and I use a Fujifilm XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS WR Lens WR Lens for landscape photography. My previous camera was a LUMIX FZ1000 20mp camera with a 1-inch; sensor, 4K video, and great zoom lens. I mainly use my camera for landscape and travel photography. Previously, I owned a full frame DSLR: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 21MP with a 24mm-105mm wide angle zoom lens, 70-200 zoom lens and macro lens. I found the large body and interchangeable lenses to be a drag weight wise when trying to travel light. I also was always having issues with very fine desert dust getting onto the sensor. The moisture and dust sealing on my Lumix was fairly good. The weather sealing on my new Fujifilm gear looks to be very good.

 

I intend to travel in 2024 with Canada, the USA, the United Kingdom and Europe as my planned destinations. I have ordered a Fuji XF70-300mm Zoom Lens for use of this trip.

 

I formerly owned a Ricoh Theta Z1 spherical camera which takes equirectangular photos capable of being seen here as 360 degree panoramas, or manipulated into compelling polar stylised 'tiny planet' views. These sort of cameras have two fish eye lenses affixed back to back. The Theta has the lenses closer together than most competing brands and thus they achieve the best image stitching in the industry. Ricoh now has a new model Theta Z1 with 1" sensors. A stunning technical achievement in such a compact body involving folded optics with prisms. Apart from use on Facebook, there are limited widespread possibilities for showcasing 360 images, apart from specialist sites for fellow aficionados. I have thus sold my Theta and will stick to traditional panoramas from now on. Photography via drones is appealing and I may get one of these in due course.

 

A few years ago I completed editing thousands of 35mm colour slides I took all over the world in the 1980s and 1990s... These are now all on Flickr in my account. The albums are in chronological order, so please delve down to find them all. I decided to use a special slide duplicator macro system attached to a pro DSLR to really get good results. So the slides were in fact digitally re-photographed rather than being scanned. Sadly, the ravages of time have blighted these slides with mould, scratches, and the colours have faded in ways not easy to rectify. Ironic, that so many modern photo manipulation apps strive to achieve that same look...

 

I also have many thousands of more recent digital pics that will be uploaded here as well, as time (and my enthusiasm level) permits. I am so far behind!

 

I am keen to make some photo books, when I have the time to work through the process. I am looking at over 30 books of 120+pages, and hope to have them available for sale through Amazon, although I have issues with Blurb as their production costs are too high for any casual buyer to purchase online. I will probably end up making one single very high quality photo book from my best shots of my photographic life and leaving it there.

 

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Let me tell you the story about the very successful photographer and the very successful writer, sitting by a gently flowing brook late one afternoon...

 

The photographer and the writer were in discussion and the writer said to the photographer "You must have a very expensive camera to take such wonderful pictures".

 

And the photographer replied "You must have a very expensive typewriter to write such wonderful stories".