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Until about three years ago I was a rather sporadic snapper as I was always too stingy with film to really get much beyond a few holiday snaps. Then I embraced the digital revolution. Freed from the tyranny of my own miserliness I started shooting with abandon and among the gigabytes of dross emerged a few decent photographs.
Then I discovered Flickr. At first I just shared put up a few photos to show to friends but then I got my first couple of comments. Like so many people I guess I got drawn in by the idea of feedback and nice comments and started posting to voting and commenting groups and seeking out more pictures to post. A few of my photos even reached the heady heights of explore. Addictive though the comment and fave chasing was, I was clearly no match for the true explore junkies so gave up on that but by then I had discovered that I really enjoyed taking photographs, upgraded to a digital SLR and learnt a lot more about photography along the way.
Since upgrading to a Canon 350D I have enjoyed trying to get better and experimenting.
In addition, I have experimented with film cameras . I have finished a roll of Velvia on my Dad's old (1960s) Pentax S1a 35mm SLR, run a roll of colour-neg film through a damaged Yamato Pal Jr. of similar vintage and experimented with cross-processed slide film. Currently working my way through my first ever black and white film.
create your own visited countries map
I saw one of these maps on my friend Tom's profile and since many of my photos are from travel/holidays thought I'd pop mine up here too.
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- Caldon Canal 19 photos, 6 members
- Guardian Camera Club 23,609 photos, 11,604 members
- ICM - Intentional Camera Movement - 17.000+ great submissions! 16,589 photos, 2,210 members
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- Living Life Through A Lens 115,980 photos, 3,005 members
- Takumar! 22,735 photos, 1,826 members
- Reflections (Post 1 Award 3) --- NOW VOTING!!! 16,020 photos, 2,775 members
- Glasgow Photo 3,127 photos, 2,748 members
- Shroom-Gloom 3,351 photos, 285 members
- Tanfield Railway 1,272 photos, 124 members
- 35mm pinhole 5,924 photos, 785 members
- Mamiya TLR 24,660 photos, 2,040 members
- Canon EF-S 18-55mm 3.5-5.6 Kit Lens 43,082 photos, 3,482 members
- Three-element lenses (vintage fixed-lens 35mm cameras) 476 photos, 115 members
- NinianLif's texture addicts 26,308 photos, 3,738 members
- Waters of Cheshire - past and present 1,455 photos, 92 members
- MOSI 1,108 photos, 109 members
- Doctor Who 12,570 photos, 1,476 members
- Peephole (Compositional frames and stuff).. 226 photos, 66 members
- Infrared UK & Ireland 3,970 photos, 532 members
- Glen Coe 894 photos, 209 members
- We Demand Donuts: Until 2013!! Keep the faith! 2,100 photos, 3,329 members
- Manchester Victoria Baths 1,243 photos, 103 members
- UK Night Photography 27,710 photos, 2,462 members
- Fuji Velvia 44,315 photos, 4,449 members
- North Wales 11,774 photos, 269 members
- The climbers monthly photo competition 63 photos, 39 members
- Open Source Photography (OSP) 36,898 photos, 3,258 members
- YourBestMinimalShot (P1+C1) ! 29,212 photos, 3,765 members
- Photos from Tokyo, Japan 212,508 photos, 12,696 members
- Textures for Layers 15,212 photos, 16,224 members
- Daleks, Your Toys and Models. 1,433 photos, 132 members
- Chrome Age Cameras - Kodak Retinette 2,009 photos, 287 members
- Monthly Scavenger Hunt 102,757 photos, 3,777 members
- Canon DSLR users UK 66,287 photos, 962 members
- Hugin 8,972 photos, 765 members
- Lichtstad Eindhoven 1,477 photos, 150 members
- Sichuan, China 4,072 photos, 230 members
- Chengdu / 成都 6,115 photos, 565 members
- Si no hay foto no has estado 676 photos, 49 members
- Palaces, Castles, Towers, Pagodas, Fortresses And Ruins of Old 101,501 photos, 8,721 members
- DIYPhotography 19,895 photos, 11,512 members
- UFRaw 4,535 photos, 258 members
- alternative processes printing (read rules please) 8,323 photos, 2,538 members
- Yorkshire Dales (National Park) 17,767 photos, 1,350 members
- canals 43,810 photos, 3,319 members
- Derbyshire 38,114 photos, 1,290 members
- We travel the World 543,966 photos, 33,821 members
- Staffordshire 25,856 photos, 907 members
- Nature Watching (Post 1 : Award 2) 183,024 photos, 13,085 members
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- Name:
- Martin Watson
- Joined:
- May 2006
- Hometown:
- Rugby
- Currently:
- Crewe, UK
- I am:
- Male
- Occupation:
- Scientist











