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Like a lot of us, I having been taking snapshots for most of my adult life. Most of this was either using a 35mm instamatic camera or over the last few years, my smartphone.

Towards the end of 2023 I began to look more seriously at photography and after reading everything that I could lay my hands on and watching numerous videos and online beginners courses, I eventually opted to purchase a Nikon Z6 ii mirrorless camera with the NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8 S lens. This was quickly followed with the NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8 S lens and then the NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8 S lens. This meant that I now had the holy trinity of telephoto lenses.

Typically, life then got in the way and I only managed a few sporadic outings with my camera. I was pleased enough with some of the results that I am now planning on knuckling down and getting out with my camera much more often.

Whilst I have a strong affinity with landscape photography, travel is still a bit of an issue for me for a variety of reasons. This means that I do not want to lock myself into any one particular genre of photography.

I enjoy architecture and street photography as well. This means that I can take a wide range of photographs and I suppose eventually I will find which I prefer.

I am very much an amateur and I am still learning the in’s and out’s of post-processing. I hope that by getting out more and taking more photographs, this will give me much more experience of this side of photography.

I opted to use ON1 Raw as my editor of choice and so far I am pleased with the results. I try to stay away from the AI side of editing and instead stick with using the sliders etc.

So that is a brief (kind of) intro and we will see how this website and my photography develops from here.