| Photography is 
              currently a hobby for me. I spend a great deal of my spare time 
              out shooting, thinking about my next shoot or working on the images 
              that I have. I first picked up a camera with any real intention 
              of learning photography when I was13. My camera was a totally manual 
              35mm SLR, a Praktica PM3. I still have this camera and it gets an 
              airing every once in a while. I stuck at this for about 5 years, 
              ironically until I went to art college, where I lost interest and 
              worked more towards design. I still kept a passing interest and 
              continued to work part time as a photographic retoucher. It wasn't 
              until around 2000 that i first used a digital camera and started 
              to get back into photography, dusting off my film cameras and then 
              buying my first digital camera a year later. Today most of my additions are taken digitally, 
              this isn't to say that I do not use film, as i still find it useful, 
              like everything the trick is knowing the right tool for any given 
              task. Currently I am using a Canon EOS 300D, a PentaxP30 and a Praktica 
              PM3. |