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First interest in photography came from a desire to take wildlife photographs and I got my first camera and my darkroom kit at the same time, which is scarily almost exactly 50 years ago sometime this year.
Worked for my local professional while still at school, and then, for around 14 years worked full time in photography, as well as spending my spare time taking photographs, before leaving to study ecology at university. Life rather left photography behind then, and I have since worked in various ecology related jobs in both consultancy and education, with very little time to do anything unrelated to work.
I never really lost my interest, I just didn't have time to do anything with it, but I started to dabble off and on again about 10 years ago, and have been fast tracking my learning since then to get me comfortable with this new fangled digital stuff, which is interesting in being both easier, and more difficult than it was in the days when film dominated, or indeed was the only choice.
I am planning on taking early retirement next year to allow photography to return to its rightful place in my life. Even with a fully colour managed system, I still get exactly the same buzz watching a print come out of the inkjet as I did all those years ago watching my very first image appear in a tray of developer set up in my bedroom.
I look forward to learning things from this forum (which I already have), and hopefully also be of some help to others along the way.
Cheers,
Graham
Worked for my local professional while still at school, and then, for around 14 years worked full time in photography, as well as spending my spare time taking photographs, before leaving to study ecology at university. Life rather left photography behind then, and I have since worked in various ecology related jobs in both consultancy and education, with very little time to do anything unrelated to work.
I never really lost my interest, I just didn't have time to do anything with it, but I started to dabble off and on again about 10 years ago, and have been fast tracking my learning since then to get me comfortable with this new fangled digital stuff, which is interesting in being both easier, and more difficult than it was in the days when film dominated, or indeed was the only choice.
I am planning on taking early retirement next year to allow photography to return to its rightful place in my life. Even with a fully colour managed system, I still get exactly the same buzz watching a print come out of the inkjet as I did all those years ago watching my very first image appear in a tray of developer set up in my bedroom.
I look forward to learning things from this forum (which I already have), and hopefully also be of some help to others along the way.
Cheers,
Graham
