I started taking photographs as a hobby in the early 1990s.

 

My 35mm camera was an Olympus OM20. I still have this camera, sitting on my book shelf. I have a range of lenses for it. I should try and sell it, I guess, but I've never quite got round to doing that.

 

I also had a medium format camera. That was a Bronica SQA. The majority of pictures I took with this camera were landscapes. I shot transparencies. I keep meaning to get some scanned into digital format. A job for another day, I guess.

 

Later in the 90s, my two daughters were born. Family life got my attention and I drifted out of taking pictures for a hobby. I sold all my medium format gear.

Golden Eagle in the Cairngorms

Back in the spring of 2008 I re-discovered photography. The digital world had arrived and I started taking lots of pictures again.

I'd always liked wildlife, so I concentrated on taking pictures of animals and particularly birds. I'm also taking some landscape images. I strongly prefer outdoor photography.

I have built up a few pieces of camera equipment over the past few months. All of my gear is Canon items. I use:

Cameras

5DMk2

450D

Lenses, etc

100-400 mm zoom

500 mm

100 mm macro

17-40 mm zoom

2x extender

1.4x extender

angle finder