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About The second half of life..

I came to New Zealand from England 23 years ago for "just 12 months"! I'm still here and I've worked for over 22 years continuously at the same place without any significant break; 2008 is going to be the year of challenge and change for me. I raise a decade on the age profile, I've taken a year out from work to do who-knows-what and I've bought a new camera! I've always loved taking pictures. I remember getting my very first camera for Christmas when I was about 10 - I was soooo excited! It was a Kodak Instamatic (I'm not quite old enough to have had a box brownie!) and I also remember the eager anticipation when I'd saved up to get the film printed (or, more likely, Mum or Dad bailed me out!) and how exciting it was getting the prints back. Maybe it was the cost factor, maybe it was the development of other interests, but I slowly grew away from picture taking. With the advent of digital photography however, my interest has been rekindled over the past few years. I've found I still love taking pictures and hopefully, I'm going to be able to combine my passion for pictures with the new-found time I have this year.

I like my pictures, but to be perfectly honest, it doesn't really matter to me if you do or you don't. At the end of the day, I take pictures because I like to; I like creating the images, capturing the detail or finding interest in the mundane. It's a pursuit for me - though I don't really know what I'm pursuing. Maybe this journey will help me find that bit out. But then again, maybe it's the journey I'm in pursuit of and maybe, just maybe, there is no destination. If you like my pictures, let me know (I could even sell a print to you so that I can pay the mortgage during this 'exploratory' but unemployed year!!) If you don't like them then you could let me know too - or maybe you could just go look at someone else's pics and come back again another day to see what's happening in my second half of life!

I'm going to do my best to make comments for other's too. I've seen some stunning images here - images that stop me dead in my tracks, images that make me wonder, images that make me smile. It's great to be able to pass on a few words to those that capture my imagination for whatever reason. That's what photography's all about isn't it?

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