[Saphire]

My life in Photography.
I was fascinated with photography from a very early age in the 50's. My dad used to put a negative on a piece of photo paper and put it in the sun to develop. I watched in amazement as the picture appeared. I don't know how he made them light fast, I never saw that bit. From then on it was part of my life till I left school and started in a development house printing colour.I worked there for a number of years until they closed down just at the time I was to get married and move away. I had a break for a few years then went back to photography to do door to door photography doing children's portraits and weddings, this was fun but it kept me out of the darkroom which I missed, so I then decided to do mail order black and white working from home all hand printed. I received work from Universities in Ireland, London and from abroad. A few years went by and we decided to move house so had to let everyone know that I would no longer be in business. I then sold everything and gave up apart from the odd snapshot until about 4 years ago I bought my first digital compact then I wanted to experiment with digiscoping but that didn't last long I wanted more freedom in taking photo's of the birds. I went and bought my first digital slr 18mths ago. the spark is back with a vengeance.