I’ve been taking photos since my parents gave me my first camera, a Kodak Brownie 127, when I was 8+ years old. It was a roll-film camera with just 8 shots to a roll, so I quickly learnt to be careful about taking exactly the image I wanted!

While studying graphic design at Hornsey Art College, which included learning the technical ins and outs of photography, I bought myself a Practica Super TL and a variety of M42 screw-in lenses and other stuff to go with it, followed by another similar Practica some years later. These were regarded as ‘fully automatic’ at that time - the equivalent of the ‘manual’ setting on today’s digital cameras!

I gave up on film SLRs after I got a Fuji 35mm compact zoom camera, which could do almost as much, except long zoom, but without lugging round loads of weighty equipment.

That in its turn was abandoned in 2004 for a Fuji digital compact zoom, which I fell in love with the instant I saw it (sad, eh?); this has since been joined by more Fuji digital cameras. I’ve stuck with Fuji because of the image colours and also the special Fuji Super CCD which gives a wider than usual dynamic range.

These photo pages, created using Apple’s iWeb and iPhoto programs include some of the photos from my earlier online albums, which are no longer available, and more recent pictures.