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My entire life has revolved around transport and industrial history related interests. Since around the age of 5 photography has been an inseparable associated past time.
The focus of my transport interest has changed over the years and today shipping subjects account for the majority of my photographs. However, in recent years I have started revisiting other areas such as railways - in particular heritage railways.
My mother's bakalite Kodak Brownie 127 camera was the first camera I used around 1964. The following year I received a my own more upto date model plastic Brownie 127 which at least had film / shutter release interlock preventing unwanted double or even triple exposures and even had a clip on flash which used real bulbs - if you could get it to work!
By 1969 I had the loan of my grandfather's Praktica Nova 1 SLR and as I reached my teens in the early 1970s I had become hooked on slide photography using mainly Agfa CT stock. A vast collection of slides being taken through to 2002 when I switched to digital photography full time.
A succession of cameras mainly Rollei, Contax and Leica have followed my Grandfather's long worn out Praktica Nova which I still retain as a keepsake. I now use a range of Leica cameras - Digilux 3, V-lux 3 and X1.
Since 1995 I have run the Irish Sea Shipping web site at http://www.irishseashipping.com which features many of my ship photographs.
I hope you enjoy the photographs on these pages.
John
The focus of my transport interest has changed over the years and today shipping subjects account for the majority of my photographs. However, in recent years I have started revisiting other areas such as railways - in particular heritage railways.
My mother's bakalite Kodak Brownie 127 camera was the first camera I used around 1964. The following year I received a my own more upto date model plastic Brownie 127 which at least had film / shutter release interlock preventing unwanted double or even triple exposures and even had a clip on flash which used real bulbs - if you could get it to work!
By 1969 I had the loan of my grandfather's Praktica Nova 1 SLR and as I reached my teens in the early 1970s I had become hooked on slide photography using mainly Agfa CT stock. A vast collection of slides being taken through to 2002 when I switched to digital photography full time.
A succession of cameras mainly Rollei, Contax and Leica have followed my Grandfather's long worn out Praktica Nova which I still retain as a keepsake. I now use a range of Leica cameras - Digilux 3, V-lux 3 and X1.
Since 1995 I have run the Irish Sea Shipping web site at http://www.irishseashipping.com which features many of my ship photographs.
I hope you enjoy the photographs on these pages.
John
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