Visual Arts

A Yorkshireman by birth, I have lived in Cumbria, with my wife and three children, for the last 29 years.

My interest in photography began when I was in my teens, and for most of those years I have worked, chiefly, with 35mm using colour; settling, eventually, about fifteen years ago, for monochrome using medium and large-formats.

Dawn: Grasmere Village

Landscape photography combines well with my love of walking, though my fifty-six-year-old MPP is beginning to feel rather heavy. This is a beautifully-engineered British camera, using German lenses, that seems as accurate now as the day it was made.

Three years ago I ceased using a darkroom, and now scan all my home- developed negatives into my computer, so as to print digitally. The detailed control which this gives to an image  proved too hard to ignore.

Now that my children are all adults and independent, I have more time to devote to this hobby, where exhibiting and selling work, if at all possible, would be an excellent bonus.

Most of my pictures were taken in Britain, though a few are of places in Europe taken when on holiday.

Two of my photos were published in the final edition (sadly) of 'The Best of Friends' in 2005.

Words and pictures courtesy of Jeff Waters.