georgieboy98

Profile

City: Yanchep
Country: Australia

Joined: Jan 2008

• Add to watchlist
• Send BubbleMail

I was born in Essex, England in 1930 and acquired an early interest in photography from my father who was very keen AND very good. I used to love standing in his darkroom and watching images materialize in the tray! Betty and I were married in Blackpool in 1956 and recently celebrated our 52nd anniversary.
My cameras have been many and varied, started with the ubiquitous box brownie and progressing through a VPK (vest pocket kodak, which I still have). My first 35mm camera was a Petrie, from where I graduated to a Yashika SLR. then a Nikon F4 and Mamiya 645, both of which Betty and I used in our Portrait and Wedding photography business.
We retired in 1995 and I immediately jumped on to the internet. My first digital was a Kodak DC 25 of less that 1 megapixel, then a Kodak DC4800, an Olympus C750UZ (an excellent 4 mp camera) and finally my pride and joy, a Sony DSCR1 – 10.3 mps and a 24-120 Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar lens with a ND4 filter. Sadly these three last named cameras were all stolen in a break in while we were out shopping one Tuesday in August. Thanks to insurance I now have a Sony Alpha 350 dslr with 2 kit lenses plus an f2.8 Sigma 50mm macro lens, as well as an Olympus SP565UZ to replace the C750. I have also just managed to locate and purchase another DSC R1 which, in my opinion, is one of the finest of all digital cameras. Living as we do so close to the Indian Ocean in Western Australia I tend to specialise in seascapes and beach photography but am a sucker for roses and also the great wildflowers that are in profusion every spring in our state.
!


My bubblesite is here