Fourteen Locks

Today I took the camera for a walk along 14 locks in High Cross, although not the best day to take photos due to the poor light I still got the 450d out for a play - Cant have my brother thinking I don't like it when he gets back from New Zealand - so I got to learn how to use it.

Grabbed a few shots of the scenery and the canal - they are supposed to be restoring it but according to my Dad it looks worse now than it did 20 years ago - which is a shame as it's a beautiful area and a great place to cycle or walk and we saw lots of people on bikes and walking dogs.

Anyway my next day off is on wednesday and unless its hammering down with rain, sleep or snow (or as is this is Wales, possibly all three) I willbe out and about with the camera again. Can't wait.

Will I ever be able to use this camera properly? I'm sure gonna try and learn.

Photography is in my genes

Well maybe not quite but i have been taking photos since I was 11 - way back in 1985 - jeepers- thats 24 years and I started with one of those 11o camera, you know the kind where the picture is always blurry and underexposed - nevertheless I was hooked taking photos of everything and everyone I could. I must have got my interest from my late grandfather who took lots of photos over the years, had his own darkroom and even built a stereoscopic camera and my archive contains a few examples of his work.

After the 110 I moved on to a Zenit 11 which like most Zenits was a bit of a brick but do you know I loved that camera - it went all over the place with me until in the early 90's I got a Pentax P30t - a camera which I still use today, it is always loaded with a roll of Ilford hp4 plus. I also have a Nikon F55, a Nikon compact film camera as well as a canon ixus 70 - so used now that the print has rubbed off in places - a few other cameras have come and gone and are probably lurking in the dark recesses of my home including a polaroid.

But now I have the Canon 450d as well I will still use the others - mainly as a back up or if i need a longer lens as i only have the one for the Canon at the mo - so they will never be forgotton - and left to gather dust.

that's all for now I'll see if i can find some of Grandad's pictures to look at

I'll keep you posted

Misty

This is one of the first phots taken with the 450d my brother gave me for Christmas - This is my Mother's dog Misty - she is 5 in April and the most beautiful Shetland Sheepdog II have ever seen .

I have many pictures of her and with be posting some of them on here in the future as well as photos from previous photo trips, event, people and pets.

Miaty is very spoilt and even gets to go to France on holiday with us.

It just wouldn't be the same without her

It's been a long time...

...since I have posted anything, not that life has been that busy, more because well, i must admitt I am just lazy - however that is all about to change as my wonderful brother bought me a Canon 450d for Christmas - so it's time I started to get out and about with and take photos of some of the beautiful places around where I live - as well as when I go on holiday and not just pix of people getting drunk.
And as said brother is off exploring New Zealand as I type I better leanr to use it before he comes back - I have played with it a little but plan to get out and about with it asap