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Had a letter published in this weeks Amateur Photographer magazine. Someone had commented that the best photos are produced in the darkroom or computer. I disagree and believe that you have to get the information on the film or sensor first. Silk purse and sows ear ring strong here.

This Saturday I'm participating in a photo workshop dedicated to producing quality photographs of archaeological finds. Can't wait. I love teaching photography!

Once again I've been down to the Folkestone Boxing Day Dip. There was terrible light which meant pushing my old Nikon D70 to ISO 800 but great fun was had by all. See the pics on my Flickr page. (Follow the link on my links page).

Happy 3d stereo Christmas to all my website visitors!

Very pleased with a new stereo viewer I have just bought. It allows high quality and very effective viewing of any sized stereocards. I have used it with normal 15cm X 10cm cards up to two A3 prints side by side. It does not matter if they are portrait or landscape format either. Pleased am I!

BIG NEWS!! My book "From the Darkness to the Light" is now available as an ebook download. Read how I revisited images originally taken as silver halide images and brought them kicking and screaming into the twenty first century. At this bargain price surely there is no excuse to have a look! Follow the link from this website. Thankyou.

Following the success of my recent 3D presentation Folkestone Camera Club have posted a very flattering write up about it on their website. A very big thank you to them for that. Incidentally now that I've done that I can look at the literally hundereds of other 3d pics that did not make the talk but which will hopefully turn up in future presentations. Hope that happens!

My 3D presentation at Folkestone Camera Club was a huge success. The anaglyphs looked even better on the screen than they did on any of my home computers. Now it is done I hope to take it elsewhere. Most importantly I thoroughly enjoyed myself doing it!

Been a while since I last updated my site. Fact is I've been working hard on my 3d presentation which is now only days away. I'm sure its a first for me and the Folkestone camera club. Can't wait!

My 3d stereophotography presentation at the camera club is getting ever closer. Producing the anaglyphs has been a steep learning curve but very interesting. Can't wait to show them!

To whet the 3d appetitie I've added a couple of anaglyph images to the website. Also been out today taking cha-cha 3d with a single DSLR. My technique is improving at this I think, (I hope!!)

Working hard on my 3d presentation at the Folkestone Camera club in October. I have many pictures, piles of anaglyph glasses and just need to put it all together. Looking forward to practicing with the projector before hand. If that does not work I'll need a rethink!

During the middle of July my website received a number of hits on one particular image. This was a picture of 'Big Beautiful Doll', a WW2 Mustang aircraft whic was unfortunately lost during an airshow. Thankfully the pilot survived. Of course this means I now have a very historic unrepeatable image in my collection.

The classic stereocard is usually about enprint size but I've been experimenting with larger sizes and today I have received some examples. I am well pleased with them and have discovered a viewer that works well with this larger size.

My 3d stereo photography interest continues unabated and I've added more stereocards to my stereo gallery. Please visit that page now!

Very happy to report that the Amateur Photographer magazine has published a letter of mine about 3D photography. This discipline is taking up more and more of my photographic time and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I was told the other day by someone who doesn't practice it that interest in 3D is waning but who cares, I LOVE it!

With an eye to current economic conditions I have decided to drop the price of my prints. I believe they still represent excellent value for money as they are professionally printed photographs on Kodak or Fuji paper and not the home produced and often delicate inkjet prints.

At long last I've been to Scotland. Admittedly it was our honeymoon on the banks of Loch Lomond but I did manage some photography. I've added a new gallery for these pics which will be added to as I find time to convert the RAW files I took there.

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Just received my first set of stereocards. Well pleased with these 3D pictures. I'll be putting them on site available for viewing and purchase very soon.

Really chuffed that a holiday pic taken in Cornwall last year scored maximum marks in a Folkestone Camera Club competition this week!

I'm working very hard on a very specialized branch of photography at the moment. Very excited about it and can't wait to share the results but want to make sure its as good as I can get it before 'exposing'(!) it to the World. Watch this space.

Last night, January 31st, had a great night judging competitions at Rye Camera Club. Good company and fine pictures. What more could you want at a club night?

After weeks of experimenting with single cameras and two film cameras I'm nearly ready to embark on my stereo photography career. My own designed apparatus is just about sorted. Can't wait to get out there!

Inspired by Brian May last week I've been out with two FILM cameras today. Also I scored 20/20 at the camera club tonight. Brilliant!

Went to an excellent talk and show by Brian May and Elena Vidal on Victorian stereo photography at the Folkestone Book Festival today. Inspiring stuff!

Once the subject of some of my most successful photos Hastings Pier is such a sad sight now. I'll have to dig out my old negs which are now historical I guess.

Well chuffed today, Practical Classics have published another of my pics. The brilliant day out at the Folkestone Oldtimer car show on August Bank Holiday is even more memorable now!

The Folkestone Camera Club had a competition for a 'Kentish View' this Monday and judged by the members and my picture of Fairfield was placed first with the reward of a bottle of Tenterden wine. Nice.

We,ve just returned from a fourteen night break incorporating a week in both Cornwall and the Isle of Wight. This has resulted in nearly 1000 RAW files that naturally everyone wants to see now! Help!!

Once again Practical Classics have published my photography. This time it is two pictures. One from Faversham Classic Car Show and one from a Rolls Royce event in Dover. It is always a joy to reach a large audience like this.

The camera club exhibition has ended in the doctors surgery and I have just one picture left! 'Deckchairs and Sunhats' and the 'Tree at Brookland' have gone to new owners. Interesting how some of my most popular pictures were taken on film!

Last night was the Folkestone Camera Club prizegiving evening where I was presented with the Len Charles Trophy. The club has a large membership of over 100 people and I was very pleased to have my image 'Deckchairs and
Sunhats' named as the chairmans favourite picture of the year. Chuffed or what!

The camera club exhibition in which I had four prints on display has resulted in a sale for me! A fine person has purchased my picture of the steam train Tangmere at Folkestone. Yay!!

It is now possible to preview my first book! From the Darkness to the Light is a book containing pictures captured on silver halide film and their subsequent revisiting in the computer complete with their respective stories. ...more

This morning I was up on Folkestone Downs taking pictures of the annual procession of the Crosses to the top of neighbouring Sugarloaf Hill. It was cold and a bit wet but I took some nice pics which can be seen on my Flickr page.

After months of relative inactivity in this club and realising that to win their competitions creativity is the watchword I actually managed to win the Len Charles trophy competition. Needless to say I am very happy and this has spurred me on. Thanks to everyone who voted, I'm humbled!

Today I have taken the plunge and become a member of Flickr. The Flickr site will basically be the home for my more everyday photography whereas this site you are on now will be the home of my more fine art photography and hopefully sales!

Although this print did not attain a top score at a recent Folkestone Club competition the committee were still sufficiently impressed by it to include it in an upcoming battle with another club. I am proud to be representing my new club in my first year of membership.

The opportunity to exhibit work in public is never to be ignored and I've been invited via Folkestone Camera Club to supply a small selection for display in a new doctors surgery in Hythe, Kent. As I write this I have mounted and framed four 50cm X 40cm prints ready for this show. Can't wait till the exhibition begins!

I'm on a real roll here as I have once again been published in a national magazine. Three times in one month! After my success with the 'Reflections' competition in the Amateur Photographer I entered a picture of the London Eye into their 'From a Low Angle' competition and once again I made the shortlist of the top thirty.

I greatly enjoy involving my other passions in my photography and my interest in Ford Capris has resulted in another published photograph, this time in Practical Classics magazine. The picture was taken at an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary for the Ford Capri marque at the iconic Brooklands racing circuit in Surrey.

Feeling flushed with success as my entry to the Amateur Photographer APOY09 competition 'Reflections' is shortlisted amongst the top thirty achieving a placing of 18th. Not bad for a 24 year old Praktica FILM camera. Chuffed I am. Got to aim higher now. Incidentally this image is available for purchase and can be found in my Romney Marsh In Colour gallery.

This is an exciting day because after much planning I am at last showing my pictures to the World. The collection herein is just the beginning, there are many more pictures to be added including film originals still to be scanned and the countless RAW files only viewed virtually so far!