I've always enjoyed taking pictures and remember using my Dad's camera (what would probably be described today as a bridge camera) when I was old enough to be trusted with it.

I bought my first camera (a Fuji 35mm point and shoot) in America where I spent a year as a placement student bac Read more...

I've always enjoyed taking pictures and remember using my Dad's camera (what would probably be described today as a bridge camera) when I was old enough to be trusted with it.

I bought my first camera (a Fuji 35mm point and shoot) in America where I spent a year as a placement student back in 1991 and have had a camera of some kind ever since. They were always point and shoot, and even with the arrival of digital my focus was "the smaller, the better" so I could take it everywhere. One of my favourites was a Pentax Optio which fit in a metal mint tin!

Point and shoot was great for snapshots but when I found myself wanting to be a little more creative I bought a Fuji bridge camera which wetted the appetite and I finally got my first dSLR - a Canon 500d - in 2009.

This was a great camera to learn the basics and did me proud until 2012 when I was lucky enough to get a Canon 5D Mk2 for my 40th birthday!

So that's what I'm using today, along with an iPhone for the times when I don't have a real camera. For a phone it does a better job than some of my old camera, but could never replace a dSLR.

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoy my attempts to 'blip' 2013...