I was given my first camera when I was 14yrs old, I think it was a Minolta compact. I've had many cameras since then, but my best is the Pentax. Why? I hear you screetch in horror. because it's weather sealed and has the stabaliser built in the body and not the lense. Bassically I'm hoping that my pictures don't look like they've been in a major earthquake or hurricain, although you haven't seen my hair in the mornings.
I photographe landscapes, vanished streets and buildings, street photography and the occasional portrait (human and beast). But as stated no nude's (unless your the guy who plays Frank in Transporter series then I might consider it, after my heart attack of course.)
BUT, back to photography. I think it's important to capture the past, a vanished world before it's gone. Life is changing all the time, we laughed at the way our parents lived, who laughed at the way their parents lived, and so forth. If we don't capture it, then how can we remember what it looked like etc.
It's thanks to the photograph that we know what Lillie Langtry and Billy the Kid looked like, can you imagine it if that hadn't have happened?
I have a website it's at www.louisetopp.weebly.com It's not brillient, but it's a start.
Get out there all you photographers and get the picture. People don't take me seriously because I have Aspburgers. So! I couldn't take the wierdo in the clown suit in the market place seriously, and I hate clowns.
I have many influences including Sylvia Broom who was the first female journalist during WW1, she was amazing. Julia Margaret Cameron was one of the first famous female photographers, and one of the first true celebrity portrait and beauty photographers. Her house is on the IOW which I would love to visit.
Thanks for reading.