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welcome to my new photoblog ... i'm david ... australia, photographer, traveler, teacher ... i'm an average person doing as much as in this short life.

i've been a photographer for about 20 years. but i have to admit that i haven't spent all that time behind a camera. when i was a youngster, my dad gave me a pentax k1000 film camera. i loved that camera and took lots of photos with it. i learned to develop photos in the darkroom in high school. i loved going to the beach with friends and watching them feed the pelicans while i took photographs.

i later sold the pentax, which i still regret to this day.

at university i owned a canon eos slr. it was a good camera and i worked on the university newspaper. i was chief photographer and used the university's darkroom (until they shut it down). i had the canon until only about a year ago. it was broken and i sold it for parts. after i left university i didn't do any photography. i gave it away when i started teaching and was totally focused on my career.

when i left australia in 2001, i moved to korea. i bought a sony digital camera and started to rediscover how much i enjoyed taking photos. i owned that for a few years and it served me well during trips to china, japan, the philippines, thailand, england, france and the netherlands. later, living in sokcho (korea) my friends inspired me to return to slr photography. i bought a nikon D50 and a few lenses. i rediscovered my love of photography and soon upgraded to the nikon D200, which i still have.

earlier this year i bought a leica R5 slr with a summicron 50mm f2 lens. i'm enjoying the wonders of film photography (again) and i'm having a lot of fun with the camera. usually the camera has either velvia 100 or b&w film. i'm looking forward to getting some ilford 1600 asa film to see how the grainy photos turn out.

currently my camera collection includes:

  • nikon D200
  • nikkor 18-200mm f3.5-5.6 VR
  • nikkor 70-300mm f3.5-5.6 VR
  • nikkor 50mm f1.8
  • tokina 12-24mm f4
  • tokina 10-17mm f3.5-4.5 fisheye
  • leica R5 body
  • summicron 50mm f2 lens

my stuff ...

linx ...

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