July 2025
Here are some photos Ian sent me from his previous travel trip either Last year or the year before ! I have finally got around to publishing them. Its always great seeing other people images of life on the streets.
July 2025
These photos were taken in the early 1980s when I was living in Hong Kong. I was using Canon cameras then. My mainstay camera was the Canon F1 version 2, and the T series , cumulating into my last and favourite T 90. Those days, zoom lenses were not very sharp, so I stuck to prime lenses. On my Journeys I carried 2 bodies, a 28mm, 50mm, 100mm and the 200mm. I think…………(it was a long time ago). I have recently scanned my negatives to the highest resolution as now they are fading and developing colour blotches. All my negatives were stored properly in Patterson negative sheets and in dry conditions. I used the Epson V850 pro which does a very good job for a novice digital scanner user like me.
Most of these images were part of my exhibition in Hong Kong in 1986.This is the first time they have been publicly exhibited since the exhibition. There will be more to come over the proceeding months.
July 2025
These are some of my first photo studies taken when I was at secondary school and the early years at university. The first photograph was taken with my dads camera at our family farm’s walnut grove. The camera was a Konica rangefinder made in Occupied Japan. Ironically the last film camera I had before totally embracing digital was a Konica Hexar rangefinder camera.
The remaining photos were taken with my first SLR camera bought from Hong Kong. It was a Canon FTB. I am forever grateful to Errol Tong for bringing the camera to me when he visited my parents motel in Blenheim.
