Spotlight on Club Member Malcolm Taylor
Hello, my name is Malcolm Taylor and photography has been my hobby for far more years than I care to mention but I can still remember my first camera – a second hand Paxina, it was a solid bellows 120 roll film camera made by Braun in Germany, and converting the loft into a darkroom where I use to do my processing using wet procedures disappearing for hours on end as opposed to the present day computer methods (to which I still disappear for hours on end).
For me, digital photography and computers have opened up a whole new range of techniques and the more I do the more I enjoy it, which confounds the maxim that ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks’.
Since I moved to Blackburn and joined this club my photographic skills have improved significantly which is mainly due to the advice given by the more experienced members, reading techniques described in publications and trying to put them into practice. There have been many failures but one learns from making mistakes.
I don’t have a particular style as you can see from my images shown here, but I still have a yearning for monochrome, despite those who say “You don’t see things in black and white”. The images may not be to every ones liking, especially competition judges, but the taking and production of them have given me great pleasure. Like lots of other activities, the more you put into it the more you get out of it.
Photography is a great hobby, which I can thoroughly recommend, where you develop a “seeing eye” and begin to view things, even the most mundane ones, in a different way and find an attraction in them.
No matter what age or ability, whatever time of year, day or night, indoors or out, you can come up with a permanent record of your efforts which can be shared with others.
For me, digital photography and computers have opened up a whole new range of techniques and the more I do the more I enjoy it, which confounds the maxim that ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks’.
Since I moved to Blackburn and joined this club my photographic skills have improved significantly which is mainly due to the advice given by the more experienced members, reading techniques described in publications and trying to put them into practice. There have been many failures but one learns from making mistakes.
I don’t have a particular style as you can see from my images shown here, but I still have a yearning for monochrome, despite those who say “You don’t see things in black and white”. The images may not be to every ones liking, especially competition judges, but the taking and production of them have given me great pleasure. Like lots of other activities, the more you put into it the more you get out of it.
Photography is a great hobby, which I can thoroughly recommend, where you develop a “seeing eye” and begin to view things, even the most mundane ones, in a different way and find an attraction in them.
No matter what age or ability, whatever time of year, day or night, indoors or out, you can come up with a permanent record of your efforts which can be shared with others.
