UK Newbie Dives In!

Hi Ann, welcome from another Scot exiled in the south!

A very warm welcome from Wigan.

Hi everyone and thankyou all for your friendly welcome!

Keeds, Cate, Mark Antony & Snallan -it's good to meet some 'locals'. I live in Sudbury now and am quite settled here - it's a very nice town and I'm right on the edge of the countryside. (Lots of good walks around here.)

AutumnJazz & mooseontheloose - yes, there's nothing quite like striding into the undergrowth to take pictures of plants. (That's how I'd describe my garden at the moment - everything's been growing like mad but I've been too busy photographing the flowers to do anything about it!)

Bob F - I know what you mean - I've been thinking how good it would be to contact-print cyanotypes etc. from 10x8....my husband will be getting very worried!

It's great to 'meet' you all here and hopefully it'll eventually be in person, if I can get to one of these APUG get-togethers. Until then I shall enjoy our virtual gatherings!

Hello Ann from here in Norfolk.

Tom.

Welcome Ann from Yorkshire, and another Canon FD and Mamiya user, you sound to me like a lady of excellent taste.

Welcome Ann

Hi Ann, there are quite a few photographers from Suffolk here on APUG. I'm living in the bit of England sticking out in the east.

Hello again!

It's great to meet you - and, Tom and Gary, it's also great to meet some more 'locals'. Guess it's a sign of the times or something that this is the first real chance I've had to meet photographers in my area - on the Internet!! So the 'Digital Age' is good for something...

Yes, Ben, I have excellent taste - in cameras anyway! My first decent camera was a Canon AE1, which I've had for nearly 30 years and it still works OK. If my T90 and Mamiya 645 last as long I'll be very happy.

Ann M said:

My first decent camera was a Canon AE1, which I've had for nearly 30 years and it still works OK. If my T90 and Mamiya 645 last as long I'll be very happy.

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The likelihood is that they will. Canon AE1 program was my first camera too I still have it though I don't use it anymore for I have other toys to play with

Best

Dee

Hi Ann.

Whereabouts in Scotland are you from? I'm from Cheshire originally but lived in Perth for 5 years (1995-1999) before moving down to Essex, where I currently live. I loved Perth and, for that matter, most of the rest of Scotland. It was only work that dragged me back south of the border or I'd have happily stayed there permanently.

I used to have a Mamiya 645 but always hankered afyer something with an interchangeable back - so I've eventually settled on a Bronica SQ-B with 40mm, 80mm and 150mm lenses. I'm aiming to spend some time around Aldeburgh and Thorpeness in the coming months. I'm not really too knowlegeable about Suffolk. Are there any other spots worth a day trip over winter.......?

Hope to hear from you.

Thanks,

Paul.