Travelling light

Decided that carrying my Canon EOS 20D around with me while on these country walks is not ideal. It's quite heavy and not ideal for taking "snaps" with. I've brought my first digital camera out of retirement, a Fujifilm Finepix S304 as it is lighter, smaller and more suited to journal type photos. Might event start taking it with me everywhere to capture everyday events.

It's not the greatest camera on the planet but I always say that it doesn't matter what you take pictures with it's the moment that counts. One of my favourite pictures (not taken by me by the way) was taken on a throw away camera. Any budding photographers out there take note: you don't need to bust your budget to get good results.


Camera phones (although I don't agree with the concept) give good results too and are very unobtrusive.

Photography

I’ve been interested in photography ever since I bought my first camera, a manual Zenith EM, way back in 1980 just before the Moscow Olympics. It was a totally manual model, so was a good introduction to photography.

In about 1983 I bought my second camera, an Olympus OM10. This had a bit of automation but nothing like modern cameras.

In about 1986 I began to take less and less photographs and my interest waned until I decided to buy something a bit more up-to-date. I bought my first Canon, an EOS 300n. A year later I supplemented this with a couple of lenses and then another camera an EOS IX7 which took APS film instead of standard 35mm.

In 2003 I decided to dip my toes in the world of digital photography and bought a relatively cheap (at the time) Fujifilm Finepix S304. I was hooked. To be able to have complete control over my photography for the first time was like looking on the world through new eyes. I could choose, as I was taking a photograph, whether I wanted to keep it or not and I could take 250 photographs before I had to download them to my computer, more if I reduced the resolution down from the maximum.

In November 2005 I finally bought myself a Canon EOS 20D, which uses the existing lenses that I have from my two file Canons. I invested in some studio lights and have had quite a number of private commissions.