Odille

I first picked up a camera at about 7, my Mum’s old Franca rangefinder, and it ignited a passion that has guttered and flared, but never quite died. My mother, and my grandfather before her, were keen photographers and I still have many little 2×3″ snaps that I enjoy trawling through. After a raft of small instamatic type cameras I purchased my first SLR in my 20s. Film was expensive but I stretched the budget shot roll after roll.

In the late 1970s I completed the first 2 years of a 4 year Professional Photography Certificate at the Canberra Technical and Further Education, but was defeated by the physics of lenses and gave it up to work full time, unfortunately not in photography. But the groundings of the course are still with me in the lessons I learned about the building blocks of a good image.

A long hiatus intervened during which I took photos only sporadically, but my enthusiasm was fully rekindled when, in 2004, I purchased my first digital SLR. While I have a huge respect for photographers continuing to use film, and indeed I still have that capability as the Hasselblad will take a film back, I am currently only shooting digital images.

I was shooting full time with medium format digital (Hasselblad) and Phase One digital back, and then a Mamiya & Leaf, but many of the images here were shot on my previous kit of professional Canon equipment.

I have now gone over to the Fuji X system, with increasing age I found I was getting out less and less as I struggled with the weight of the cameras. The lightweight/small size, but very able, mirror less system suits me down to the ground at this stage of my life.