My young niece recently asked me, "When did the world become
colourful?" All the old films and photos she has seen are in black and white.
I began photography in
Glasgow, where as a Boy Scout I learned to develop and print black
and white film.
As a
merchant seaman I photographed in many countries, on the continents
of Africa, North & South America, Australia, Japan and Europe.
My
first wedding was photographed in 197? for a Bride who had seen an
award winning
picture of trees by me and she thought I could do weddings!
I couldn't. Then. Thirty years of weddings and I learn something new
at every one.
In
1991 I became a
Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society
Online in 1994 I
had the fifth wedding related website in Scotland and built
Wedding-Services.co.uk a UK Wedding Directory,
the income from which supported me while a mature student of
Information Management, databases, at the
University of Abertay
Dundee
Later I sold the Wedding Directory and bought a keel boat
which I sailed round Scotland through the three Scottish canals, Caledonian, Crinan
and Forth & Clyde.
Keenly interested in
religion
and politics, I have stood in numerous
parliamentary and local council elections. I strongly oppose the
European Union
Photography
I
use three
NIKON DSLR digital cameras, a
Pentax
film camera,
METZ and Nikon flash
and Tungsten and Strobe studio lights.
QUOTE
Photography is the power of observation,
not the application of technology.
www.kenrockwell.com
I
moved to the Highlands when I met Ann, seen here when we sailed a
Moody 28 end to end of the
Caledonian Canal.
Ann Rose
healer and psychic,
assists at weddings,
reminding me what to do
and she is a whiz at
Adobe Photoshop
My
boat, Eleuthera, which is the
Greek word for freedom. A GP 14 sailing
dinghy based on the Cromarty Firth.
Reading:
The Power of Now by Eckhart
Tolle
Conversations with God
by Neale
Donald Walsch -
Deepak Chopra - Quantum
Physics 101
The
Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Love one another but make not a bond of love ...
Anarchism 101 - Hendry David Thoreau - Highland News
- Photoshop for Dyslectics ..........
www.WhatReallyHappened.com
FAT PIGS
(I am a vegetarian)
Recently spent a
week at
The Utopia Experiment
on the Black Isle.
I am and have always been a Utopian Idealist.
The
quote which sums up photography for me ...
"Photography can be
worth much more than words
precisely because it does what words do,
without words, in a very different way."
Marshall McLuhan
Wedding Albums
Photography can and has changed the world. For the better.
The power of images to change social conditions
and expose truth,
is its beauty.
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Came
across one of my own wedding photos I took and realised I have
never seen on any wedding photographers websites, and I have
looked at zillions, a picture of their own Wedding.
Now single and fatter.
At work
"Work is love made
visible." ~ Kahlil Gibran
Allison Tartan
CLIENTS INCLUDE
Inverness Courier ~
Highland News & North Star
Ross-shire Journal ~
La
Repubblica, Italy
~
Financial Times ~
The Scotsman
Fergus Ewing MSP SNP
~
BII Scotland
NHS ~
Waterbridge
The Scottish Green Party ~
Harper Macleod
Fernie Castle ~ Balgonie Castle ~
Crossroads Inverness
Marathon-Photos.com ~ et al .....
Quantum Physics
dictates that something does not exist in its physical form until it
is actually observed by someone.
Wkipedia.org/wiki/Scota
SCOTA, in Irish mythology, Scottish mythology and pseudohistory, was
an Egyptian princess to whom the Gaels traced their ancestry,
explaining the name Scoti, applied by the Romans to Irish raiders,
and later to the Irish invaders of Argyll and Caledonia which became
known as Scotland.
QUOTE:
"Photographers are mavericks"
Tom Zimberoff
www.Flickr Gallery
www.flickr.com/photos/scotaphoto
Islam is Peace.org.uk
The Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh) described the importance of marriage to having
completed half of one’s religion. The Qur’an describes the virtues
of marriage in several passages.
Ann took this photo
before tying me to the tracks.
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TECHNICAL
Equipment:
Three
NIKON
DSLR
cameras
PENTAX
film SLR
and a
NOKIA
cameraphone!
NIKON
&
METZ
Flash & Courtney Studio Flash
Tungsten studio lights
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