Photography

I have been a keen photographer in some shape or form for most of my life. I started out with a Brownie 127 taking 7 pictures on a film, each one wound on with several turns of a little knurled wheel. An Instamatic followed (remember those flashcubes?) then a Chinon SLR from Dixons which I thought was pretty swish. Then it got serious. Following a spectacular off-road accident (the only injury being to my pride) my DT250 was sold as a 'damaged repairable' and I bought a Canon A1 with the proceeds. This at the time was a state of the art camera - and I built up a fine selection of lenses and other accessories. Much of this was due to the kind encouragement of Andrew Priddy who ran (and still does) a photography business in Minehead. He used to give me interest free credit long before it was invented - I still have the hand-written notes with the amounts I was able to pay marked off. Later I replaced the A1 with a T90 - this is still a beautiful looking camera and was I suppose the last great SLR before auto focus arrived. I still have it, although these days most of my photography is done with a digital camera, which does pretty much everything the T90 would (except possibly 18 frames a second motor winding!!) and although a slightly different shape is little bigger than a cigarette packet.

The photographs on this page have only one common theme and that is that I enjoyed taking them.