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My photographic interests (no nude's, so don't even try to ask)

AuraTodd

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.

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  • Hi

    I have an interest in photography going back more than fifty years, when my father used to do lock himself in a cupboard with a film and come out with some prints an hour or so later!  I never forget that sulphury smell of the fixer.

    So then I started helping him in his makeshift dark room, printing the pictures.  I thought it was help anyway!  Then when I was at College, I got a camera (a Russian camera called a Zorki) and got a couple of lenses for it.  I could then lock myself away creating what I thought were marvellous pictures.  However, as you suggest, photography is a brilliant way of recording the changing world.  And I used it to record the changing face of Cardiff at the time, when the shopping centre was being built.

    Although I could probably talk someone to death about camera bodies and lenses, fstops and focal lengths, the pros and cons of this and that, my chief interest is in images.  Yes, I did graduate to an Olympus OM2, and later on went digital, now having a Canon.  But it is what they do that is the marvellous things for me.  And photography also fits in with such a lot of other interests too.  I did improve eventually getting my Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society.  Like so many other things I have a passion for the passion is then driven by an urge to do well, to get obsessed by it (it was fishing in my teenage years!)

    Now I take a range of subjects, and yes, railways are a major part, but also like landscapes, the countryside, church architecture and history.  The interest in these is driven by the photography, I like to find out about the things I take pictures of so this also involves some research afterwards (or beforehand if possible).  And all these interests can be done while on my own, which is a bonus for me! 

    Some of my pictures can be seen at

    My Photographs

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  • Hi

    I have an interest in photography going back more than fifty years, when my father used to do lock himself in a cupboard with a film and come out with some prints an hour or so later!  I never forget that sulphury smell of the fixer.

    So then I started helping him in his makeshift dark room, printing the pictures.  I thought it was help anyway!  Then when I was at College, I got a camera (a Russian camera called a Zorki) and got a couple of lenses for it.  I could then lock myself away creating what I thought were marvellous pictures.  However, as you suggest, photography is a brilliant way of recording the changing world.  And I used it to record the changing face of Cardiff at the time, when the shopping centre was being built.

    Although I could probably talk someone to death about camera bodies and lenses, fstops and focal lengths, the pros and cons of this and that, my chief interest is in images.  Yes, I did graduate to an Olympus OM2, and later on went digital, now having a Canon.  But it is what they do that is the marvellous things for me.  And photography also fits in with such a lot of other interests too.  I did improve eventually getting my Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society.  Like so many other things I have a passion for the passion is then driven by an urge to do well, to get obsessed by it (it was fishing in my teenage years!)

    Now I take a range of subjects, and yes, railways are a major part, but also like landscapes, the countryside, church architecture and history.  The interest in these is driven by the photography, I like to find out about the things I take pictures of so this also involves some research afterwards (or beforehand if possible).  And all these interests can be done while on my own, which is a bonus for me! 

    Some of my pictures can be seen at

    My Photographs

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