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As a child I spent a lot of time around photography as my Dad was an enthusiast which often resulted in myself and siblings either in front of a camera or waiting for a shot to be taken whilst on holiday or on trips out. As a result I remember being keen on having a camera, so on my 7th birthday I was presented with the first that I could call my own – a 110 film cartridge type Kodak and I loved it.

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First Camera – Agfa 110, First SLR – Praktica LTL3 & 50 mm lens

Loosely speaking, I bought my first camera, an Agfa 110 compact, in the May of the 1976, the year I joined the RAF. Armed with a couple of films, I had ideas in my head that I would be in the next edition of National Geographic and I would tabloid news. It may come as a surprise to some, it is to me, that National Geographic have still never heard of me!

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Years in Photography, c. 50yrs

My father often took photographs of the family as I was growing up and I had my first camera, a Kodak 44A, in my early teens.  The camera used 127 size roll films and produced 12 x 44mm square negatives per film.  My interests developed and I progressed to 35mm and then, around 1964 to an early SLR, a Yashica Penta J.

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Name

Lois Webb

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Age: 40+

Years into photography: 10+

I have always taken photos as far back as I can recall, but always with point and shoot film cameras (of the 110 and 35mm variety). I didn’t really take photography seriously until I bought a decent point and shoot digital camera which had manual controls.

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Age 45+

Years into photography 6+

I dabbled with photography as a child with a Kodak brownie camera, nothing serious just some snaps but later with the advent of digital I got into photography seriously with a Sony compact camera but wasn’t getting the results I wanted.

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As a kid I loved taking photos when on holiday with a Kodak film camera.  When at college I got a Zenith E 35mm camera and started using the college darkroom to develop black and white.  At that time the meadows area was being redeveloped and I tried to record some of the old buildings and the people around them before they disappeared.  I also did a series of black and white shots of the RC Cathedral (fondly known as ‘Paddy’s Wigwam’) in my home town of Liverpool.  I lost all of these prints and negs later on when we were flooded.

Like so many people, I left photography when I got married but took it up again in the 1980′s when we had kids and I bought a new 35mm camera.  When digital cameras came along I got a Canon compact and soon after a Canon 350D SLR. I found I was far more successful with digital cameras and I enjoy messing around with Photoshop.  I joined the Outlaws Photography Society a few years ago and this helped my photography to take off.  I have upgraded to a Canon 7D and a bag full of lenses and other stuff, the main purpose of which seems to be to make the camera bag even heavier (back to those creaking knees again!).

I mostly do landscape work and have been encouraged by a few successes in club competitions. I have recently been attempting some arty processing such as my “Victorian Prospect”. I also enjoy challenging my photography by entering competitions with themes that I would not otherwise tackle.  Without the challenge of club competition I would not have spent time filling party balloons with water, freezing them and creating pictures of  “Ice Planets”.   Portraits are always a challenge but I have learnt something from watching others in the club.  The moral of this tale is come and join us, enjoy the company and let your photography grow!

John’s gallery:

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Hi

Well I’ve enjoyed photography for as long as I can remember, I have to thank my late uncle Ken, who used me as a model and then introduced me to the magical world of black and white developing.  I carried on my love for post processing at Uni, they had a really professional lab that us students could use, using my first proper camera a canon T50.  I only dabbled with photography for a number of years until the dawn of the digital age, in the early days it was very disappointing  the image quality was rubbish, as some of my old 2 megabyte images show all too clearly.

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Hi,

Being as though I suggested this feature I felt it only appropriate that I should kick it off.

I have been into photography all my adult life, my passion really grew when my wife (to be) bought me a Prakitica L2 with a 50mm Pentacon lens for an engagement present when I was 19 (yes, it was a long time ago).

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