About Leo Reynolds / LEOL30  

Profile last updated Tuesday 2nd June 2009

During the 70s and 80s I used film SLR cameras and had a darkroom. I started with a Zenit E and then moved on to an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic II and upgraded twice keeping with Pentax. The expense of film, negative dust and scratches and carrying a heavy kit bag around put me off photography. In the end, I went for a 35mm compact for parties and holiday snaps.

I bought a digital in April 2003 to replace the compact. I loved it. It allowed me to get back into photography. No limit on exposures and I could experiment with no expense. I upgraded in August 2004, loved the new camera even more. I started retirement on 1st Jan 2005, joined Flickr on 14th Feb 2005 and, as they say, the rest is history. In May 2005 I upgraded again to a dSLR (Canon 350D > 30D > 40D) and now have a kit bag and a darkroom (Photoshop CS3) again. Browsing Flickr made me realise that I wasn't alone taking images of cans, piles of tiles, rust and squared circles (I didn't know what squared circles were then or how to crop them properly but I did capture one). So with carte blanche I capture anything and everything and don't feel self-conscious about it. Flickr provides the ultimate global album for the photographs. Flickr also exercises the side of my brain that I enjoyed using at work i.e. organising and tagging the photographs, creating sets, admining groups, writing guidelines and webbing. Nearly forgot, photography with Flickr feeds my obsession of collecting things and it's a lot cheaper than CDs, DVDs and books. That's me in a nutshell...I can't leave the shutter shut.

My photostream consists of:

Photographs I've uploaded because I'd like the world to view and comment on them. They are organised in sets.
Photographs: [ Random ] [ Images in Explore ] [ Interestingness ]

Collection & Reference sets of general interest e.g.
Norwich Plaques I
Norwich Plaques II
Norwich Plaques III
Cemetery Symbolism
Stencils
Graffiti

Fun photographs of squared circles (over 17,000), letters (over 6,000), numbers (over 10,000), signs (over 4,000) and typography . They are organised in sets. Most of the images are posted to subject groups on Flickr.

The majority of my photographs are covered by a Creative Commons License - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0.


I admin/co-admin the following groups:

Group Announcements

Letters and Numbers
One Letter
One Word
Punctuation
One Digit
Nine
Property Numbers
Norwich & Norfolk
Norfolk UK
Normal for Norfolk
Norwich UK
Guess Where Norwich
Norwich & Norfolk Flickr Meets
Norwich Stencils
Cemeteries
Headstone Military Badges
Cemetery Symbolism
The Rest
squared circle
Door Details
Object Sky
Round Tower Churches
Street Names
Verdigris
Village Signs

I'm Male and Taken.

http://www.leoreynolds.co.uk
Norwich, England, UK