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Ever since I can remember there were always cameras lying around at home. My first was a hand me down Kodak Box Brownie, medium format, which always came on holiday although the prints and negatives no longer exist. I even got to take my Dad’s treasured 35mm on a school trip aboard the SS Uganda about a bazillion years ago. It wasn’t until I did my Foundation Course that I got my own Camera. A Ricoh 35mm, served me well until I really caught the bug big time and found a Nikon FG20 in the London Camera Exchange. It all got a bit silly with an F301, home darkroom, the works, and an obsessive desire to frame the Chalk hills of Southern England. Somewhere along the line though the fire started to go out, and eventually the camera bag gathered dust in the spare room for far too long. Digital cameras arrived but I was never really impressed with the quality. Then one day I came across a Kodak DX640, and the spark returned. Upgraded last year to a Fuji Finepix 9500 and now I’m firing on all four cylinders again. Sold a few pictures here and there in the past 2 years and enjoying the fact that people seem to like what I see when I lift the camera to my eye. Bonus. I guess the blogs/webpages/forums will continue until the creativity flows in a different direction again, but until then happy viewing one and all. Welcombe, Devon, July 6 2007