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I'm not really keen on those flashy doohicky award things - I mean they are flattering and all that but don't really help me learn anything or tell me why you like an image (or not). I take photographs - it's what I do- an obsession I can't stop, and love to do & don't consider myself a "photographer". Like life it's always an ongoing experience full of experimentation. If something doesn't work I try again and am constantly learning. One can never learn too much or read too much or take too many photographs. If I get one or two images a week I am happy with I am content. I prefer an honest comment and constructive criticism and hopefully return the same when I am not in a rush (sometimes it's hard to find time with family commitments but I tend to catch up overall eventually).

When I only had an SLR and used mainly B&W film, I thought I had some kind of "style" of photography maybe in an infant form but since playing around with digital (albeit point and shoots & canon powershot) I feel humbled again and also full of joy discovering a different kind of world. During the last few years while caring for sick family members - I've only had small bursts of time with the camera - mostly on the run to and fro other "things to do" with a lot on my mind & take advantage of what fate presents that way. Rarely have the privilege to wait for sunsets etc or set up a shot or for that matter get seriously into some kind of photographic style
- time just doesn't permit - have lots of ideas on the backburner though . It's a challenge at times with the equipment I have and satisfying when I get it right.

And most of all photography keeps me sane.

Sometimes I am positively awed by the work of the photographers on my contact list and struck dumb finding words leaving me speechless and agog. Whether I have said it or not before, I learn from you. Thank you for sharing your work and showing me your world, I am indebted to you not just for the chance to learn something, but to see places and people through your eyes, that I will probably never get the chance to experience in real life. That's some kind of bliss for my retina's, and becomes a part of my memory, enriching my world.

btw I use Babelfish translator to communicate with people who speak other languages - so if sometimes what I comment doesn't quite make sense, ask me to clarify. And feel free to use Babelfish to communicate with me.


The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. - Susan Sontag

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera. ~Edward Steichen

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine



btw all photos are copyright.

Location; Central Coast, NSW Australia.

Equipment:
Canon AE1 & a couple of lenses (canon fisheye & tamron 200 zoom) but I don't use it often now due to film costs/processing & have no darkroom now.;(

Olympus D575 zoom - I like it for it's macros

Canon G5 - gifted to me by Victory_Rose and I love it!

and I also sometimes get to use my teenager's
Canon S3.

Velbon Tripod.

darkroom equipment (packed away for now)
Durst enlarger
but on canon ae1 images, used either Scheidner or Nikon enlarging lenses.

DSLR on my wish list. In the meantime I push the above babies as far as they will go.

I also have an old Kodak box brownie, a Diana, Contina/Zeiss/Ikon & recently picked up an old Olympus Trip 35 for $5.