My first camera was given to me as a Christmas present when I was ten years old and I have been taking photographs ever since.
I graduated to my first 35mm film camera when I was sixteen using Agfa CT18 slide film. I moved on to a Zenith E f2 SLR and then a Pentax K1000. I changed to Canon when they introduced the plastic EOS 1000 and had a darkroom for developing black and white prints.
I moved to digital in 2003 with a Canon G3 I missed the feel of an SLR and soon purchased a Canon EOS 350D but we did not get on and that is when I switched to Nikon with the purchase of a Nikon D80.
I graduated to a Nikon D300s for a few years before moving to the full frame Nikon D750 in 2014. I decided to ‘go mirrorless’ when Nikon announced the ‘Z’ series, with a Nikon Z6 at the beginning of 2019. Having gained my ARPS (see below) I rewarded myself with the purchase of a Nikon Z7 ll. I currently use a 24-70mm f4 lens, a 14-30mm f4 wide angle zoom lens and a 24-200mm f4/6.3 travel lens. I recently invested in a 100-400 f4.5/5.6 telephoto zoom lens.
I have a range of Lee Filters for my landscape photography including three and ten stop neutral density filters, neutral density grads and a polariser.
All my photographs are downloaded into and processed in Lightroom. I often dip into Photoshop, sometimes use The NIK Collection or Topaz and occasionally Smart Photo Editor.
My photography tends to be ‘as and when’ and is not particularly well planned. I mainly take landscape and architecture photographs but I like railways and also airshows in the summer. I have particular interest in South West Light Houses and Cornish Engine Houses.
The Royal Photographic Society
In 2008 I became a member of Exeter Camera Club and soon realised that I needed to improve my photography. I joined a sub group with the aim of obtaining a Royal Photographic Society distinction and gained my LRPS (Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society) in April 2012.
In 2021 I submitted a panel of fifteen black and white prints of the interior architecture at Exeter Cathedral to the Royal Photographic Society for assessment and was awarded my ARPS (Associate of the Royal Photographic Society) at the end of May 2021.
