In The Dark!!!

I used to be a professional studio photographer about 25 years ago when I lived in Norfolk where I am from.

Sold up when I moved to Liverpool 20 years ago.

Haven't touched a proper camera since then, until recently when I bought a Minolta Dynax 800si kit, simply because I wanted to re-engage at a hobby level with film cameras.

Grew up with film cameras which has given me the ethos of doing 95% percent of the work when pressing the shutter button and not relying that much on post production.    however LOL

I used to prefer working in film medium, especially black and white and darkroom work, and thought that digital SLR's were the Devils work (LOL)!!. However, on a whim I bought a Canon DSLR from 'that' auction site and have well and truly been bitten by the digital bug!

My dream 35mm camera was always a Nikon F4 and Hasselblad medium format SLR. I was hoping to get a Nikon DSLR kit, however, I am very impressed with the Canon!

Have had work published in national photo magazines and critiques written by Mike Maloney (FRPS) and I am a former member of the RPS and hoping to take my LRPS exam soon.

Interested in meeting and working with local models and photographers

Happy to work for trade at the current time until I get back in the swing of things and master this digital thingy

Really interested in high contrast nudes and body-scapes and boudoir photography, so if thats an area you would like to explore and collaborate on give me a shout.

Also more than happy to help out with your ideas and concepts to build your ports up, good work always comes out of shared ideas!

Hopefully will be able to meet and chat/work with some of you guys soon!!!

Take care all

Russ