I first became interested in photography in 1949 at the age of twenty-two. In 1951 I joined Southampton Camera Club and was elected President in 1982. At the end of WW2 the photographic 'State of Art' was the production of 3 1/4" slides, now it is the digital camera - a quantum leap.

My first portfolio photograph, entitled 'Dreamboats', has proven to be my most successful to date with a FIAP ribbon. Judging varied as the soft focus effect was not fully approved of at the time.

My second colour photograph was taken in the Lake District, in freezing conditions early one December morning.

The black and white photograph of Calshot Castle, on the shores of the Solent, was taken on HP5 rated at 1600 ASA.

Finally 'Saturday Night Fever', another intentionally unsharp photograph, was taken to illustrate the 'Joie de vivre' of young people running across a square in the centre of Bruges late one Saturday evening.

In 2000 I finally went digital and purchased a computer and Nikon film scanner. Now, after all these years, I am able to more easily produce colour prints from transparencies. However, I am still a dedicated lover of the black and white image and it was in this medium that I achieved my Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society.