Hello From West Cornwall - Finally

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simulatordan

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Hello All,

I've been a member now for nearly a year so I thought it was time to say hello formally.

The first camera I ever used, and only once, was my mother's Ensign E129. She had it before the War and gave it to me in the 1950s. My first real camera was a Kodak Brownie 127 which I used on school trips. The local Chemist gave me some developer and 'Hypo' and started me off on a life long interest in printing and developing; albeit using crude tools and a small contact frame at the time.

Then I used an Halina 35 compact together with a Johnson's "exposure calculator" Which taught me much about the basics of fstop/shutter speed, light and Depth of Field relationships. In the 1970s I bought my first SLR, a Pentax ME super; which I still use. Then I had a period during which I was busy with other things like getting qualified as an engineer, bringing up a family, paying mortgage and so on; and photography went by the wayside.

Now I have more time and can spend time with serious photography again.
I shoot 35mm: Pentax ME Super, Nikon F501 & F65. I have a Bronica SQ Ai for 6 x 6 medium format and an Ensign Selfix 820 set for 6 x 9.

I use Ilford film almost exclusively: Delta 100, HP5, XP2. I have a Darkroom and am into printing again.

Most of my posts have been the result of participation in the Postcard Exchange Rounds, the UK Print Exchange Rounds, and 2 Blind Print Exchanges which I greatly enjoy.

Finally I would like to thank everyone at APUG because I have learn more from you lot in the last 9 months than I have in over 50 years of reading photographic magazines and such. Thanks again.

Regards Daniel J. McNaughton
 

roteague

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Hi Daniel, welcome to the forum, and thanks for posting an introduction. Funny, I was just reading an article in Outdoor Photography about Andrew Nadolski's photographs of a beach in Cornwall. Do you live close to that beach?

Welcome aboard,
 

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Roger Hicks said:
Damme, cap'n, one of the few who can legitimately call me a Northerner! (I'm from St. Dennis near St. Austell).

One for all and all for one!

Cheers,

Roger (www.rogerandfrances.com)

ps: do you suppose we can get a .kernow suffix?


Goodness gracious--I've been reading all those books by Roger and Frances over the years, and all those articles and reviews, and had no idea that Roger is from Cornwall. My grandmother's family was from Altarnun and Launceston, and I've been dying to make a trip there to see the old country. If any of your ancestors are Dunns or Whales or Vennings, Roger, we might be cousins (I realize that's very unlikely).
 

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Chazzy said:
Goodness gracious--I've been reading all those books by Roger and Frances over the years, and all those articles and reviews, and had no idea that Roger is from Cornwall. My grandmother's family was from Altarnun and Launceston, and I've been dying to make a trip there to see the old country. If any of your ancestors are Dunns or Whales or Vennings, Roger, we might be cousins (I realize that's very unlikely).

'Fraid not. My grandmothers were Reynolds and Gibbons; can't recall further back (it's late and we've just come back from a very liquid dinner next door). Dunn, possibly: Whale and Venning, I think not. But go back 3-4 generations and we'm all related, boy.

How's your pronunciation? Oltrn'n and Laantz'n is as close as I can render it in English letters: Launceston is well NE of St. Denys. But if people realise you'm a proper Cornish lad, they ol' foreigners won't get a look-in.

Mind you, we're very welcoming. Miklos Haas, aka Nicholas Hayes, half English, half Hungarian, do live up Laantzn way. After only 20 years, he's regarded as practic'ly local.

Play the Cornish ancestor card for all it's worth: you'll be made seriously welcome. Did your grandmother come from a family of hard-rock miners? And look for THE CORNISH MINER IN AMERICA by A.L. Rowse (from memory: will check more carefully when more awake/sober).

Cheers,

Roger
 
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Welcome to another Brit from another Brit . We're gathering strength in the last 12 months or so. Pity you've been reading for 50 yrs. It's makes you old like the rest of us. My impression is that we'll all disappear in about a 10 yr span and go from a 5 figure membership to a 2 figure one if we're lucky.

So we need to interact and share info like there's no tomorrow. We'll have time to argue when we're stoking.

pentaxuser
 

BWKate

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A very warm welcome from Victoria, B.C.

Have had loads of fun exchanging postcards with you, Daniel! Would love to come visit Cornwall someday!
 
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Although I was born in Plymouth, my Mother was born in Mylor and grew up in Penryn. Does that make me part Cornish I wonder?
Nah, I suppose not. :D
 

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Welcome from Kabul. Its like Cornwall at between -20 and +50 Degs C except lacking in the topsoil, greenery, civilisation and rule of law. No speed cameras tho, wahey!
 

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Welcome Daniel, have just got off the phone to friends in Golant. Until a few years ago Graham had the chemist shop in St.Dennis.
 

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Hi Daniel from a "furriner" just over the water in Devon.
I spend a lot of time abroad in Cornwall photographing mining remains and collecting mineral specimens. A cautious welcome to our recent World Heritage Site status...
Best wishes,
Steve
 
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