I joined the OPS in October 2004 as I had acquired a Canon SLR 500 EOS with a Sigma 105 mm lens a few months before and felt that I needed to join a club to try and learn more about photography. As yet I do not have a tripod or use Photo Shop and go the old fashioned way of having film developed, both hard copy and CD.

I come from a creative family and I’ve been interested in photography for a long time but up until now used a Nikon compact which I found very frustrating as I couldn’t produce more interesting shots. I don’t take any particular type of shots, but do prefer texture, gardens and architecture as opposed to animals and people. I’m particularly happy with a photo I took in Autumn last year of a pile of wonderfully shaped logs in the garden of Kingston Bagpuize House.