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Hi & welcome to my website,
It’s purpose is to allow everyone to view my images and to inspire some of you to have ago at steam railway’s & nature. Its dedicated to my 3 main passions in life. The UK’s preserved railways, Wildlife & the art of Photography itself. The desire to make a website had been with me for sometime but i had no idea where to start, but a great friend has helped me understand the basics of web design by using the Word-press platform & I love it! I owe him a great deal, Thanks Macca!
Ive tried to make the navigation around the website simple as possible…… Under the essential info tab you will find things like my background & equipment-techniques used amongst others. The Galleries are where the main content is, the images are low res around 850×550 pixels, some people have commented there to small, but that’s how i want it…If you can see the image and detail you don’t have to fill the whole screen! I always shoot in RAW its non destructive and preserves all the detail unlike jpg’s & you can print big images with no problem. I like playing and trying new angles and pushing my own techniques to the limit, so if you like viewing hundreds of 3/4 front shots and bunker firsts in glorious sun, then this isn’t the site for you!!! But what you will find is a different slant that i feel captures the emotion and feeling of steam railways, the staff of the railways also feature strongly in my work as well, often the unsung heroes for me they can make a good image great.
The railway Gallery breaks down into individual railways, which i try to keep up to date, and the nature gallery is slowly catching up as i scan in my 35mm nature slides, By the end of 2009 the content was 90% where i wanted it, not bad for my sites first birthday!
From time to time i will also publish some Blogs, these will vary in content from advertising new gallery updates to guides on how i process my raw images or how i use adverse weather to my advantage rather than moaning and going home……….
Anyhow i hope you have as much pleasure viewing my photos as i do taking them & let me know your thoughts (good or bad) via the contact me page or reply to a blog!
Cheers
Jon.