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I can't remember exactly how old I was when my father gave me my first
camera, but I must have been about five or six. A second-hand Halina 35mm compact loaded with black and white
film, I took pictures everywhere we went.
I would help my father for hours in his improvised darkroom, mesmerised as the prints would magically appear in the developing dish. My first SLR was a Pentax S1a, a simple but
solid camera with a detachable light meter that was mounted over the
pentaprism, where a flash shoe would sit.
I took my first tentative pictures with slide film on this camera –
Kodachrome 25, a slow and very fine-grained transparency film – learning about
manual exposure control and depth of field.
Within a few years I upgraded to the Spotmatic SP500, a camera I took
on my student travels to France, Spain, Egypt and Cuba. Following a brief period of ownership of a
Bronica ETRS, I bought into Canon's EOS system with an EOS500, followed by a
100 and more recently a 30V.
These cameras came with me to the USA, Italy and Australia, as my
passion – and style – grew. Having finally gone digital with the EOS 1Ds mark III, my subject
matter now encompasses landscapes (both urban and rural); architectural and
interiors; details, close-ups and perspectives; and observed humour
(usually formed by the coming together of disparate subjects within a scene). |