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"I travel, therefore I am."

I got my first camera as a child, a lowly Kodak Instamatic 126-cartridge camera. It awakened my interest though, and by 17 I was the very proud owner of my first SLR, a Ricoh KR-10. That fuelled a passion shared with my close friends, and it was almost inevitable that I would end up as a keen traveller, backpacking around the World with rolls of film tucked safely in the deepest parts of my backpack. I made a very early choice to take only transparencies, and although I experimented with most films on the market through the 80's and 90's, I was a loyal Kodachrome user, although I later found Agfachrome to be as rich in colour, and a little more forgiving.

That KR-10 was eventually replaced due to damage by a 2nd-hand Ricoh XR-2s, and after that was stolen in a hostel in Australia, a Minolta X-700. By the late 90's I developed a desire to take prints as well as slides, and purchased a small Canon compact, particularly for skiing holidays where my SLR was just too heavy and bulky. So began a new dimension to my passion, and for a while I travelled with both SLR and compact, although eventually the compact took over due to its convenience and ever evolving lens technology. These days my trusty SLR rarely gets any use; a couple of years ago I finally bought a compact digital camera and become hooked overnight! Now I have upgraded to a digital 'super-zoom' - the Panasonic DMC-FZ28. Not quite a dSLR, but almost as good, and so much easier to carry around. I love it, and have been having a lot of fun with the manual and B&W settings...

My photographs that originated as slides/transparencies and negatives were scanned with a Nikon Coolscan III and digitally remastered (especially in the case of Kodachrome which doesn't scan correctly). Some prints were reproduced using an HP flat-bed scanner. Digital photographs are from Sep-07 onwards.

I generally do not edit or crop my photos - what you see is what I took. The only exceptions to that may be where the scanned image from a slide or negative required contrast & saturation adjustments to bring it as close as possible to the original. Some digital b&w may have had the contrast enhanced, but no more than would have been done in the darkroom. No special effects have been used, so all those spectacular sunsets were exactly that - spectacular!

I'm happy for my photos to be included or referenced in bona fide websites for non-commercial use, so long as they are linked back to my flickr account directly, or are attributed to me as "© P J Partridge". Please click on the 'cc' link against each photo for more information.

In all cases I retain full copyright of all my photos, and they may not be modified, sold or distributed without my express permission.

Thanks for reading this and enjoy my travels!

- Phillip 14-Jan-2011