My interest in photography started in my early years, as my father had two cameras.  One was a Kodak Box camera, and more interestingly an old  bellows camera that took photos on glass slides.  I still have the bellows camera, but sadly the  box camera  has  disappeared..   I can no long use this  camera as I have no  glass negatives.   I remember taking  a picture of a  blue tit on our bird table, and it came out quite well  but I have no longer got it, sadly.  I do however have several pictures I took on dad's  box camera;  the earliest that  I  know were  mine was when I took some pictures of the stands that we had for the  Boy Scouts' fairs we held in our garden.  I took the pictures to advertise the  following year’s fairs on posters.  After that I took pictures of all my cousins, and the occasional one on holiday.   Then I got my own camera.  It was a 35 mm camera taking slides or photos.  I tended to take colour slides, the camera had more facilities than Dad's old  box camera, in that I could take time exposures,  (Set time or long-time by holding button down) and  delayed time (to get in my own photos!)  I preferred colour slides  best as one could view via  a projector on to a  screen.  I was also able to vary the  focus, and get some quite close up pictures.  Later with more  knowledge I found I could  get really  close up by putting supplementary  lenses in front. I took a few  close- ups of stamps..  One of my favourite tricks was using the  time exposure facility to take night pictures of  move  cars  etc, leaving their  light trails as kind of  ghosts.  But I also found I could  cheat and take several pictures on top of each other, by holding the rewind button whilst winding on the  film.  This meant that the  film did NOT wind on to the  next position, but left the  film in the same position.  I took many night  pictures with as many as 7 pictures on top of each other.  Also of fireworks.  I also experimented with moving the  camera whilst holding the camera open, at night!  These “trick”  pictures had to be done at  night, otherwise  they would  be  grossly overexposed.

    I have included  several examples of each of these in my pictures you can view from my Webshots albums

Some of my EARLY

Pre digital pictures

Email:   Chris

Scans of pre-digital Photos

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http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/philcovers/album?.dir=f3c1

http://community.webshots.com/user/philcovers

http://community.webshots.com/album/196302272XdEXac

http://community.webshots.com/album/245599024ayZBPM

        Photography

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