Hello from Kent!

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A big hello!

I can't believe a forum exists that can happily ignore all that is digital! I've been into photography for years and mainly enjoy travel and architecture, I'm a big Velvia fan and love black and white. My main camera is Bronica SQ-A but I also use an X-Pan and a Nikon FM3A on a regular basis.

Anyway, that's a short bit about me so far, will post more soon. Hope to be a regular here now I've found the forum!
 

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Greetings Ben!

Yes, isn't APUG great? We are lucky, indeed, to have it.

I enjoyed your web site.

Pat
 
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Wow! Thank you all for your kind welcomes, and for responding quickly too!
 

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Sounds as if you have all the right credentials for membership. Welcome from the Midlands.

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Hi Ben - I'm in Chilham - small world
 

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Greetings from Germany, I love the UK und Scotland ;-)
Some nice images on your website!
 

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Hello Ben, welcome from Berkshire
 

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I was in Canterbury in 2001. About time for another visit, I'd say. Welcome to APUG!
 

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Zen

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Cheers everyone, your welcomes are appreciated!

I think this will be a forum I can settle into happily. The topics seem much more relevant to my interests than many other photo forums. I asked a question on another quite busy and active forum recently about film developer, and only got one reply! So many forums have a lot of digital content it's refreshing to come across this one.
 
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Zen

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Thanks all again for the welcomes!

Cate - is that you? I recognise a couple of the pictures in your gallery from the RPS forum?
 

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Hi Ben. Welcome.
 

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Hello Ben,
You're lucky living in Kent - I'm slowing making my way along the Douth Down Way/Pilgrims Way. I take a d*****l point & shoot with me to scout out opportunities to return with a proper camera (5x4 or 10x8). Sadly, with time constraints I know I'm missing many opportunities, especially if the weather isn't 'right'. Do you get much chance to get out & about?
 
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Thanks everyone!

I do get out and about a bit Mark - it's a personal project of mine to photograph as many places in Kent as possible. I've started a site, Images of Kent, but at the moment it needs quite a bit of work doing to it and several images need rescanning (were scanned when I first had a scanner and didn't have a clue what I was doing! ).

David - I'm an Ashfordian, small world! Certainly agree about Dungeness, one of my favourite places.
 

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Ben, I enjoyed the images on your website. I've only been to Kent once, a friend took me to Dover Castle, then we went to Rye. Beautiful country. I'm hoping to visit the UK again next year.
 

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Dear Ben,

Nice website! My criterion, increasingly, for judging others' pictures is "Would I be proud to have taken that?" Most of yours, I would.

I was surprised at how few pics there were of the Romney Marsh churches (one of my favourite subjects when I lived in Minnis Bay) but actually, I suppose there are very few of those on my web-site either (www.rogerandfrances.com).

Glad to see the AP link, too.

Cheers,

Roger
 
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Zen

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Thank you Robert and Roger for taking the time to look, and for your kind comments.

Roger - no not many Marsh churches between us! That's partly why I set up the Kent website, to help provide an end result for exploring my home county. Enjoying reading your blog by the way.
 
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