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Sunset on the Thames

My Pentax k-r
I'm a mad keen amateur photographer. I've had my photos published on magazine covers, in online travel guides and in a scholarly work about the origins of the bible.  I also won a top twenty award for one of my photos of the Henry Moore sculptures in Kew Gardens.

But mostly I just take photos for fun and as an aide memoire. If they look good too that's even better. Often I just have my little camera with me, on automatic - it's only with my big camera I use aperture priority mode and only when taking passport photos for family and friends that I resort to shooting in RAW mode (which gives more control over colours and lighting).

I've produced some guides to help people with photography (the layouts are optimised for printing):

And here are some interesting web resources:
  • DP Review - a good range of camera reviews and loads of user reviews
  • Trusted reviews - excellent camera reviews, including the one that persuaded me to get a Pentax k-r SLR rather than a Nikon D3100. It was the in-camera stabilisation and low light performance that swung it.
  • Imaging Resource - camera reviews
  • Steve's Digicams - detailed reviews
  • My Flickr photos - holiday snaps, landscapes, Kew Gardens etc. Check out flickr in general too
  • Click2scan offer very reasonable rates for scanning your old photos. Pixave is another company that offers what sounds like a personal scanning service. They contacted me asking for a link but note that I do not get even 0.0000001p if you click on a link from my site - do your own research!