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'Let's say [it's] the photographer's understanding of possibilities ...When he took that photograph he couldn't possibly know--he just could not know--that it would work, that it would be a photograph. He knew he probably had a chance. In other words, he cannot know what that's going to look like as a photograph...That's really what photography--still photography--is about. In the simplest sentence, I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed.' -Garry Winogrand








I first started taking photos when I was a child - mostly of buses with a box brownie - progressing to an SLR during my teens and beyond.

I still own a couple of old film cameras and have a love of old gear which I try to resist collecting!


Eventually I stopped taking photographs, preferring to paint and draw and only recently resumed after acquiring a cameraphone.

I have just begun to use a Canon 1000d DSLR and I also use whatever mobile phone I happen to have in my pocket, when I'm not carrying a 'proper' camera. Occasionally I will shoot a roll of film.

I have shot the odd sunset and, occasionally, a flower macro but please don't hold it against me! I don't apologize for using HDR, though.

Although I have had an account on Flickr since 2006, I only really got started in January 2008.

I like to keep my contacts down to people who take the trouble to look at my work from time to time and give me their opinion. I have a 'clear out' from time to time in which I remove contacts that haven't been active for a while.

I don't fave things routinely or lightly, but only if I really like a picture.



In lots of ways I am having to re-learn everything and still class myself as a beginner. Fortunately here on Flickr I am beginning to find some great photographers to learn from.

If you want to use any of my pictures, for any purpose, please email me and please give me credit for them.





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