Introduction

I have been taking photographs for more than fifty years.
I started as a snapper with a 35mm Akarelle camera afforded by delivering morning newspapers before catching a train across London to go to technical college.
It seems such a long time ago.
I lost the Akarelle at a bullfight in Mexico ten years later. So I progressed to a Voigtländer Vito B and then a Yashica SLR.
Later, when I went to Swaziland as a volunteer, I took a Minolta Dynax - a beautiful camera & super technical leap forward, with interchangable lenses and a tele converter for wild animal shots.
Coming back to Australia and living on the Gold Coast I took off on a Korean holiday with a wonderful new Minolta Vectis APS camera. It produced super-wide prints and was also one of the earliest water resistant models. I got beautiful results with that Minolta, it's in the cupboard somewhere, sadly out of date and out of fashion.
Then I went digital.  A really huge leap! I thought I would downsize as well, with a pocket sized digital Pentax Optio  555. Great or travel shots in Syria and on my first trip to France.
The Pentax was too limiting though so when I retired in 2002 and I found time to be serious about picture making I lashed out for a Nikon D40. On a trip to Tasmania I slipped off a rock, trying to capture transparent waves, and dropped the whole lot into the ocean. I replaced that camera with a 40DX. I had to replace skin on my arms as well.
Then I decided upgrade to a Nikon D300 when attending a photo workshop with a professional photographer in France. I became newly inspired. I had more lenses to play with, a propper carbon tripod, professional quality flashes. I worked out how to Post Process using Photoshop&Lightroom so things were good. I won some good prizes with the D300, including a twin lens D3100 kit  from Nikon Australia, $1000 from Bendigo Bank and other odd prizes, so I thought I was set.
But nothing stays the same in the photographic world. The D300 got too old and heavy so I switched again.
I'm now a Fuji X convert. A wonderful XT2 and a range of super sharp lenses to play with. Its almost a circle, the Fiji has analogue controls almost like the Akarelle I started with but technically so much better.
I reckon I am now not just a happy snapper, just happy, and that being so I thought I could share with anyone that cares to look at these web pages, some of the things I see in our precious blue planet. The planet we humans are so careless of.

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