I took up photography as a pastime when I was a teenager. My father taught me to process film and bought me a camera at that time. Since then, I’ve had several periods of getting involved in photography, but never spent enough time at it to reach a point where I could say I was a photographer. During my time living in California I took several full-time courses in photographic processing and found that I enjoyed printing my own colour photographs from transparencies. Now, of course, I have a locker full of processing equipment, and currently own a Canon digital camera which has opened up a whole new pastime for me. Gone are all the film and chemicals and now I’m focussing on learning how to take a photograph that has artistic appeal. Nature photography interests me most and with the forest behind our town, and sea in front of my window, I hope to spend more time this year improving my limited talent. Setting up the website, and posting new photographs as I take them, will help me to focus on subject matter that I find most pleasing.