And in the Beginning There was Light...

And in the beginning there was light, and the light was good... 

This is the first of what will be my occasional posts to promote my woodturning and photographic creations, which are available to buy (might as well get that in early!) on Numonday.com and Redbubble.com respectively.

Let me start with photographs. I have been interested in photography ever since I spent an afternoon in the school darkroom way back in the mists of time, and being utterly mesmerised by the sorcery of turning a piece of ordinary film into a printed image that I could actually look at and make sense of, and say, 'Look, I did that!'

It is really only recently that I have been able to devote more time to my photography, and things have moved on a bit since those first tentative steps with the schools' Praktika (remember them?) SLR, and the tricky business of mixing chemicals and exposing photo paper to negative images on an enlarger. 

I moved to London when I joined the civil service. I was able then to buy my own camera, a Zenit EM, being the best I could afford as a junior grade. It may not have been very sophisticated, but that camera taught me a lot about the art and science of photography and I happily exposed many rolls of film over the next few years. Sadly most of those photos have been lost in various moves, so I have little to look back on.

Marriage, houses, family... And now? Still married (yay!), the kids have left home and we have moved to our little house in the country. Are we still happy? Hell, yes! And I am developing (sorry) my photographic skills further, recently getting into astrophotography, though there are still plenty of things to capture down here on terra firma. But for now, here are a couple of sample images from my digital archive (sounds impressive for what is actually just an ageing external hard drive!) taken whilst we still lived in London. 

I'll get on to the woodturning in my next post.

BFN.