mikeinlagardette's photostream  

I ran away from home when I was quite old! I was born & grew up in England, and I've lived most of my life there, but I have worked & travelled in Europe quite extensively, especially France, which I love, so it seemed a natural place to run away to, when I had the chance of early retirement.

I have taken photographs all my adult life, and although other pressures and passions have sometimes come to the fore, it's always been there, often just rumbling along in the background, but always there,and I was lucky enough to have spent a fair bit of my working time with cameras & photographic equipment.

I love old cameras, they always surprise me with what they can achieve, so most of my stuff now is with vintage kit, and my discovery of the wonderful work that has been done with Caffenol, has been a big stimulus.

I consider myself to be a reasonably competant photo technician, but I'm certainly not an artist, in fact, I'm not even an especially good photographer, but living where I do, in Central France, and often re-visiting the lovely County of Gloucestershire, in England, I don't have to be. The photos almost take themselves, you just open the shutter, and let the beauty flood in!