Yanni

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City: Rosebud
Country: Australia

Joined: Jun 2008

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I’ve been photographing for 20 years ever since my dad gave me his Ashahi Pentax SLR to use. I only came into digital photography about 8 years ago when the local newspaper I was working with started to use the first digital compact cameras – I think they were the Kodak types. We then used Nikon SLRs.I bought my first Canon 20D as I had always used Canons starting with EOS 630, 5 and finally 1V. I still use the 20D and an old EOS 1D.

I did two different short courses in photography during the film days and set up my own black & white dark room in bathrooms of a couple of houses I lived in.

I love movies and film making and I guess I instinctively inject a movie scene quality to some of my work. I automatically find that I’m most comfortable with action – sports, fast animals. I’ve always liked the Cartier Bresson thing “the decisive moment”. I like to capture the image as it happens. I also like to go to the other extreme and slow down so much that time stands still in some of my landscapes.

I never tire of using a camera – I’ll always find something to photograph. In my local community I like to see myself as a historian – doccumenting my world almost on a daily basis.