About Garry Corbett / Garry Corbett  

I've been taking photographs since I was 10. I received a Kodak Instamatic 50 camera as a birthday present from my uncle Stan. I graduated to using a 35mm courtesy of borrowing my Father's Kowa SE. I bought my first 35mm camera around 1976, a Nikon FM. I used this camera for many years adding an FE a couple of years later. With these I took the first photographs that I had published in amateur photography magazines. In the mid-80's I switched to auto focus Nikons. I still use these, 801s & 801 bodies plus a variety of Nikkor lenses. I have recently purchased a Nikon digital camera. For 13 years I was a member of my local photographic society. For a time I was Chairman & did a variety of other committee jobs. Then I began to tire of photography & there has followed a period of about 3 years when I have not taken a serious photograph. A combination of a chance encounter with a stranger taking photographs at a jazz gig in Birmingham's Symphony Hall bar & joining this site (4th.March 2006) has rekindled my interest. I now want to make new images.

In the past I've had work published in a variety of magazines, newspapers & several books. I was an Associate Member of the Royal Photographic Society & have had work exhibited in the UK. I've also won a number of awards for my photographs.

Despite all of the above I do not believe photography to be a competitive sport. This competitive aspect of photography no longer has any appeal.
My current aim is to make photographs which please me. Thankfully I do not have to make my living from my images.

I am also a published poet. I am attracted to somehow combining words & images.

I love music & chance encounters.

I find inspiration in unexpected places.

Every day is a bonus/adventure.

I welcome feedback about my photographs.

"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera" Dorothea Lange

email me : bluejazzbuddha@googlemail.com

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