Rincewind42's photostream  

Born and raised in Scotland, most of my photography still centres on that region. The vast majority of my photographs are now displayed here. They were taken before digital cameras and so occupy several cardboard boxes filled with negatives and slides. I have scanned in a lot, but the task was too much. Almost all of the Scottish shots here were taken on my Nikon F70 camera using Fuji film and then scanned to a photo CD in the lab or on my own film scanner.

In early 2006, I moved to China. I live in the north east of the country. Over the last few years I have traveled as much and as often as I can (while working as a teacher) and taken my camera with me as I went. Just one week before going to China, I bought my first digital camera. It was a bargain basement deal in the local Tesco supermarket. It has only one fixed focus lens and no focus control but I didn't need much better. All the China photographs shown on my pages prior to 2008 were taken with this camera. I think you'll be surprised when I tell you that the camera used for these photographs cost just £30. Even though I've now upgraded to a Fuji camera with all the features of my old Nikon, I still use my simple camera simply because it fits in my pocket so neatly.

The images posted on these pages here are raw. They come straight form the camera without any enhancement or polishing. At the most I might straighten a squint horizon or tweak the contrast a little. So what you are seeing here is exactly what I saw. This also means that you can see all my mistakes. I've not photoshopped out telegraph lines or cropped off stray objects in the corners. The images here are really as a backup to my hard drive rather than show, but feel free to view and comment.