Mike - through my eyes' photostream  

Born in Melbourne back in 1948, I have always had an interest in photography having a Kodak Brownie box camera and then my first SLR back in the late 1960s, this being a Practica Nova with a Zeiss 50mm 1.8-22 lens. I later added 135mm and 400mm lenses and a x2 televerter. This was followed by a zoom (80-200mm) lens. However, most of my photos were for family use.

I started tinkering with digital photography back in the late 80s while teaching computing and even won a first prize at the Waneroo show for an action photo I took using my HP digital camera.

My son Matthew purchased a Canon EOS 300D and started taking some great photos ( www.flickr.com/photos/jricco/4020807309/ ) which were displayed on the ABC website. Thus inspired, I purchased my own Canon 300D.

I used to take a lot of day to day photos as well as pictorial stories of events such as balls, dinners, camps and swimming/sports days for my work (Newman College)

I have recently upgraded to a Canon 450D and a Sigma 24-70 EFS f=2.8 lens

My main photographic interests revolve around people, landscapes, stories, textures, macros and occasional panorama, HDR and experimental.

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