scotartt's photostream  

I don't try to over-process my images. In fact I think the perfect photo is one that's taken as-is in the camera. I try to get the best capture I can and then get that results unprocessed on the site. Nature is generally my subject, although I also like architecture shots.

My current camera is a Sony alpha A-300, with the two kits lenses (18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 and 55-200mm f/4-5.6) - I've just got a second-hand Minolta 50mm f3.5 Macro from eBay - some good pictures worth uploading will come from that soon. You'll also see shots from my iPhone (the best camera is the one you've got with you!) and my old Pentax S4 p&s.

I am a 40-something software engineer, who is currently studying Ancient History (namely Classical Rome) as a postgraduate. Photography is a hobby I have only recently taken up after dabbling in it when I was under 20. I'm also a musician, which I've done since the mid-1980s. I make electronic music under the moniker of "Victor Xray".

Here, on the planet Auchenflower, in the Brisbane system of Galaxy Queensland, time appears to run slowly, much more slowly than back on the HomeWorld. Space has been stretched to breaking, a cosmologist's dream come true; the open Universe's last moments on a locally observable scale. Everything is enlarged, lumbering, as if spacetime has been engorging itself on the souls of the strip-mall inhabitants, driving perplexed in circles around the oversize roundabouts. The city has a familiar look, but a slighty disembodied sheen - no a glare - appears to cover everything.