funky.groovemonkey's photostream

Hello and welcome :) - you have managed to track down the Flickr site of the one-and-only funky.groovemonkey.

You can also find me on a few other popular/social websites too, sometimes with the same alias: funky.groovemonkey, sometimes in shortened form as just plain old groovemonkey - and on a few other sites I go under the alias of frogg.

Feel free to get in touch for any reason whatsoever - yup, *anything* at all! Not sure if it's me? Drop me a line and find out anway! - you can do that either through FlickrMail, or via my private email address which you can find fairly easily on my public website (linked below). You can also find me on Facebook too if you try hard enough.

But enough of the general stuff, this is a photography website - so I'll get back on topic...

I love taking photos - but rarely seem to make enough time to do it these days.

I have two digital cameras: a Vivitar ViviCam 5105S which is very basic (5 megapixels, fixed-focus lens, fits in my pocket), and a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 which is pretty fancy (6 megapixels, 12x optical zoom, image stabilisation, makes the tea, etc).

I also have an APS camera: it's an Olympus iZoom 75 (all-weather, 28-75mm zoom lens, fits in my pocket), which is ok as cameras go, very handy - but certainly nothing special. I don't use it very much any more.

And I still have an older 35mm camera, although i can't really afford to run it these days with the costs of films/processing being what they are (which is also why I use my iZoom so little these days). It's an aging Olympus OM-2 Spot-Program in black, with a whole heap of lenses and other accessories. It's a big chunky optical device which operates on a mostly mechanical basis, and, because of this -- like any half decent 35mm camera -- it has a truly lovely feel when you click the shutter and then wind it on again.

I am a firm believer in actually getting the right shot and using the camera to do the work - the old-school way. Although nowadays I do actually use an Apple Macbook and Apple's Aperture for a little bit of post-production -- having said that, a lot of my earlier photos are totally untouched.