I am grateful for the invitations to post in your group. The content on my photofeed is rated as Safe, and so are the Flickr groups that display this work. For the time being I intend to keep it that way.

You can license my photographs at www.eyeem.com/u/studioanthologie

I am fascinated by what we experience, including what we see, and especially what we do not see — what we must sense but ignore or take for granted — when we go about our daily lives.

Finding those moments, and discovering what I may or may not have captured successfully — much like what we used to do in the darkroom — is what motivates and surprises me.

I used to shoot with manual cameras, on film. The digital era slowly took over, and I made do with a variety of P&S models. As the K-5 is my first dSLR, this may explain my newly rediscovered love of fixed-length, manual-focus lenses. Like meeting an old friend again and wishing you'd not been away so long. I am finally sharing this inspiration on Flickr. There's a lot of equipment and imagery in the 'archive', ie in bins in my closet. When the archived stuff becomes relevant to my presence on this site, I will update this section.

My current equipment includes:

Pentax K-5

• smc Pentax DA 1:2.8 14mm

• smc Pentax A 1:2.8 28mm

• smc Pentax A 1:1.7 50mm

• smc Pentax A 1:4 100mm macro

• smc Pentax DA 1:3.5-5.6 18-55mm AL WR

• smc Pentax DA 1:4-5.6 50-200mm ED WR

• smc Pentax DA 1:3.5-4.7 55-300mm ED

• Circular PL filters (Marumi, Hoya)

• Genus variable ND filter

Olympus XZ-1

Apple iPhone 4s

Giottos VGR 8265 tripod

Vanguard SBH-250 ballhead

There were many who influenced my early development in this medium, including fellow artists, filmmakers, writers and documentarians. I have not seen my photography professors since university, and I probably did not let them know at the time, how much I came to appreciate their teaching:

William Eakin

David McMillan

Finally, I should mention that my 82-yo father, while he was a teenager, shot with a camera that looked a lot like this. He introduced me to cameras at a young age, and even let me use his Nikon F until I could afford my own Nikon FE. I didn't know what I had when I played with my first Diana camera as if it was a toy. But perhaps that is why I feel the camera has such a natural place in my life today.