[profile three years after joining - November 2016]

I have been a resident of the Isle of Purbeck for four decades or so, and am now retired.

I joined Blipfoto three years ago.  It has encouraged me to try to upload a photo every day, but this is at times an unattainable task.  My Blips Read more...

[profile three years after joining - November 2016]

I have been a resident of the Isle of Purbeck for four decades or so, and am now retired.

I joined Blipfoto three years ago.  It has encouraged me to try to upload a photo every day, but this is at times an unattainable task.  My Blips are intended to be just a photographic journal: the presentation of a variety of photos, most with commentary on their subject matter or their photographic treatment.

One of my major interests is travel, especially in Europe: I have at times lived and/or worked in Belgium, Italy, Germany and France.  But my home is on the Dorset coast: the Isle of Purbeck is an ideal location for those keen on landscape and wildlife photography.

The photos uploaded to Blipfoto are ones which I hope to be of interest, curiosity value or perhaps even merit.  Since I travel quite frequently, this produces a good variety of subjects and locations.  It also enables me to upload a selection from my stock of older images, but I have done this only rarely.

My Blips start in the year 1966, which happens to be the year when I acquired my first 35mm camera (a little Minolta).  My very first sequence of photos which you will find was taken using a Box Brownie and black and white film.  The subject, one which as a youngster I found fascinating: the Iron Curtain, in the days when almost all of it still consisted of just minefields and barbed wire fences.

In case you are interested, here is a link to my first photo.   It was taken on 1st March 1966 or thereabouts.


[additional news - October 2018]

My future blips covering Lower Normandy are going henceforth to be rarer and of a different character.  After 15 years I have sold my pied-a-terre in Carentan.  This will encourage me on trips to France to venture further eastwards in Normandy - to Maupassant country and perhaps even to more distant French regions.....

And there remains much of Europe to discover.