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These pages will carry details of my photographic interests.
As a retirement present to myself I purchased
a Canon EOS450D. The first pictures I took in earnest with it were of
my trip to Somerset in 2008.
I'm still using it although the kit lens supplied with it exhibits barrel
ditortion at wide angles.
My interest started
in 1970 when I acquired my first camera. Until recently I was still
using as my main camera the Olympus OM2 that I bought in 1978!
I have since purchased five digital cameras: a Canon Powershot A40 (2Mp
- used in 2002/3), a Canon Powershot G5 (5Mp - used in 2003/4), a Canon
EOS350D (8Mp - used 2004-7), a Canon EOS450D (12Mp - used 2007-11) and
a Canon EOS550D (18Mp).
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Fleetwood Camera Club
In September
2005 I joined the Fleetwood
Camera Club. Lovely bunch of people with years of experience and ready to
give good advice when it's requested.
I have
regularly entered the club's Quarterly print competitions finally getting three
pictures Commended in the 2005/6 Quarterly and Annual Competitions. In 2006/7
I managed to get a Highly Commended award in the 3rd Quarterly competition.
In 2007/8 I had success in the 2nd
Quarterly competition; gaining 1st Place. In 2008/9
Quarterly competitions were replaced with half-yearly competitions. I had no
luck in them. This year (2009/2010) I didn't enter the two half-yearly competitions.
But I did enter the 2009/10 Annual competition
and gained overall 1st Place.
In the
2010/11 season I gained 2nd place in the 1st
half-yearly competition. I also gained 1st place in the 2nd
half-yearly competition. No luck though in the Annual
2010/11 Competition.
In the
2011/12 season I gained a 1st and a 2nd place in the 1st
half-yearly competition.
If
you would like to see my entries in any of these competitions follow this link
- My Competition Pictures.
I also exhibited some pictures in the Club's 2006,
2007, 2008,
2009, 2010,
2011 Annual Exhibitions. It was
through a visit to 2005 exhibition that I came to join the club.
Geoff's Pages
As a
result of searching for some information about my pictures taken at Locomotion
some summers ago I came across Geoff Cryer's lovely website with lots and lots
of very fine rail related pictures and also many very fine non-rail related
ones too. I thoroughly recommend a visit. It even has a blog! For rail enthusiast's
click on:
Railway Photography, Drawings and movies to view and download
For non-rail pictures
click on Geoff's Walks
With A Camera.
Photo related ramblings
This area has yet to be constructed and I don't know when
I will find time to do it now that the number of holiday pictures that I put
on the website has grown so much. There are very many non-digital photo's to
be scanned both from prints or negatives/slides.
When I get round to doing some of this I will add
many more pictures to the web site. This Spring I scanned several hundred
negatives for 1999 and 2000 on my Nikon V ED scanner. Very time consuming.
A large selection are on the Summer Academy pages for Durham
1999 and Durham 2000.
Picture above is a view
of a red squirrel taken at Formby, modified in PhotoShop and saved
as a GIF file using the Web palette.
35mm SLR
I used to use an Olympus OM2n.
Digital still camera
I currently use a Canon450D.
S-VHS Video
I no longer own one.
Digital Video Camera
I have a Panasonic DV tape
but never use it.
Copyright © 2011 Theresa McHugh
Last modified: December 10th, 2011