I joined DPR in 2012, however I was lurking the site since it's early days (late 90's early 2000s)
Early days with Canon
I was because of Phil Askey's reviews that I bought my first digital camera in 2002 - the Canon IXUS v2
Don't judge me on my early work I wasn't much of a photographer then.
one of my first digital images 20years ago. It's pretty terrible, I know. I SWEAR I've gotten better.
Then in 2003 Canon announced their first "budget" dslr - the Canon Rebel aka 300D. Again it was DPReview that convinced me to pull the trigger in 2004 even though at the time it cost me 2 weeks pay for the camera and a kit lens (my second most expensive personal purchase at the time aside from my car)
this was my favorite image from my time with my Rebel.
Still a crap photographer in 2009....I thought I was so arty (hahaha)
A switch to Fuji
In 2012 I started seriously thinking about getting a new camera and I officially signed up for DPReview after 12 years of lurking about. I asked questions on various forums and continued to read the reviews then in 2013, I switched to Fuji with my purchase of an X-E1. I couldn't resist it's beautiful retro style which I chose over the Canon 6D. DPRs camera comparison tool convinced me that the difference in IQ wasn't big enough to fork out nearly $1000 more for the 6D.
Here are some of my best photos with the X-E1 and X-Pro2 (purchased in 2018).
I know I don't post here much and you probably don't remember me from the last time I posted but your advise and support has been invaluable none the less...
Thank you DPReview and Fuji X forum members.
This won 3rd Place in the "Motion" challenge back in 2015
See, I did get a little better as a photographer. Hopefully this was worth the wait.
I printed the following image as a 20x30inch canvas print. Not bad for a 16MP image.
It's at this point I discovered ultra wide angle lenses
dabbling with adapted vintage lenses. This next image was selected by DPR staff to feature as one of the images to promote the new Adapted Lens forum
Not one of my best photos but whatever
this next one is one of my favourites...
The Samyang 12mm has become my most used lens.
Some night photography
Samyang 12mm again (ignore the exif if it says the anything other than 12mm...I was never good at remembering to change the FL setting for my MF lenses)
12mm again....I'm sensing a pattern here
Fog seems to be a recurring theme for some of my latest images as evidenced by the next two shots.
finally a shot with a different lens
Nope...back to 12mm
I wish everyone all the best for what ever you do and where ever you go xxx
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