photopca

ABOUT

Location

Burgundy, France

Born	London

Gender

Male

Member

Standard

Joined

February 2009

Interests

Photography, Mountain Biking ... lots of stuff

www.paulatcliffe.com

My first camera, when I was but a lad, a Zenit B single lens reflex, made in Russia from girders - robust isn't the word, I'm sure you could buy an accessory that converted it into a car jack in fact. Manual everything and exposure by guesstimation (I used to dream of an exposure meter), a month or two later I found a second hand enlarger and promptly converted the bathroom into a darkroom. I was bitten. I avidly read everything I possibly could on the subject of photography and became a fountain of useless knowledge, people shunned me for quoting the refractive indexes of various lenses at them. A few years later a new fangled Olympus OM10, automatic everything became mine, first accessory - an adaptor so I could use it as a manual camera. Old habits die hard I guess. That met an unfortunate demise on a mountain top at 40 below zero, killed by cold, but my newly acquired Olympus OM2n kept right on going. I still have it along with a couple of other Olympus SLRs, they were great for mountaineering; in fact I remember slipping on a glacier and sliding several yards on an OM4 - it lost some paint but still worked fine. I'm pretty sure that would have killed my Nikon DSLRs. Nowadays I've forgotten much of the useless information I learnt in my youth. I could care less about the refractive index of my lens elements, I shun people who quote refractive indexes at me. Life is easier, my pictures are better and now I study photographers rather than technical info. I live and exhibit here in France, frame and print my own work and still use a spot meter and the manual setting on my Nikons way more than I probably should.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Ashness Bridge finished second in the contest "Man Touched Landscape Photo Contest"

Ashness Bridge reached "All Time Best" status.

Flowers and Petals reached "Recognized" status.

Ashness Bridge reached "Recognized" status.

Stairway reached "Recognized" status.

Stairway won the contest "Light Photography Contest"

Snowdrops finished first in the member created contest "Snowdrops"

Waiting reached "Recognized" status.

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