I started photography to capture images of my children, an effort to stop time, as they were growing up so quickly. Photography soon turned into a passionate hobby, with trying 'to capture the moment' on film and transparencies, and involving many evenings in my home-based dark room.

Initially I shot mainly B&W, only later on, transparencies. The B&W images shown in this gallery were taken in the late 60s and early 70s, my experimental period, when we were living in Germany. They were taken on an inexpensive East German manufactured Praktica with a variety of equally inexpensive lenses.

Two other galleries show images from the same period, one of 'swinging' London and the other of my first visit to the USA, where we subsequently went to live for seven years.

I have scanned the film, and now have the laborious task of cleaning the digital images resulting from years of neglect of the originals. If I'd know then that I was going to do this, I would have taken better care of the negatives over all those intervening years! Forgive me if these images are not yet as clean as they ultimately will be.

I unashamedly show this old work, as, after a break from photography of nearly 20 years, I have taken it up again, this time purely digital. I feel myself back in the learning phase again. I wonder, too, if my style has changed, or if it is the same as then. I welcome any viewer comments, especially on this matter. Thank you.