well, hello!

i'm nik, or nikolas, either's good! i don't really like capital letters unless i'm applying for an interview, however i do like grammar!

i'm a 24 year old professional photographer from the home counties and I am enjoying a new lease of life after some prett Read more...

well, hello!

i'm nik, or nikolas, either's good! i don't really like capital letters unless i'm applying for an interview, however i do like grammar!

i'm a 24 year old professional photographer from the home counties and I am enjoying a new lease of life after some pretty life saving surgery this year, a definite pivotal moment in my life!

i have a wonderful family (whom one is a member on blipfoto - narabug - my lovely photographically assimilated sister in law :).

my family mean everything to me and I get on so well with my dad, he's my best friend as well as my dad! we're so close and it makes me so happy!

I thought I might list my photographic equipment, you'll mostly find me in my room of an evening, cleaning my collection of photographic equipment!

i'm a dyed in the wool Nikon man... but I do enjoy having a dirty clandestine affair with the red white and black temptress that goes by the name of Pentax.

I have a D7000 which is my main shooter, although sometimes when I'm rolling light I'll use my iPhone 4 - which offers reasonable photo quality on a standard 800x600 web photo.

The Nikon Package consists of a;
Nikon D7000 Body
35mm f1.8 prime (Nikon)
100-300 Voigtlander Telephoto, retro slider from 1996. (Works perfectly even down to CPU metering and even supports the 3d tracking focus mode)
10-20mm Sigma EX Series wide angle
18-55mm Nikon kit lense - actually a good bit of glass
Cokin P series
hundreds of filters
big reflector panels
generic speedlight, works a treat

i also share a K200D Pentax with Dad, I say share... it's more of a "dad, I am dying to try out some old M42 glass, and I don't have an adapter for the D7000... Can I borrow the Pentax mate?"

i also have a boxed Pentax ultra micro palmsize SLR from the 80s, and a used one which was my dad's but he gave it to me as a 'congrats' for having my operation - it doesn't sound much i know, but that camera has always held a certain mystique to me as i picked it up when I was 2, and took a photo. i always knew it was 'daddy's expensive camera'.

Also have a f*cktonne of old M42 glass, a russian ZENIT SLR and a few random 90s AF mount telephotos for the Nikon,

secondly to my family, i love spending time playing with cameras, cars and computers,

my other pride and joy is my car, a Skoda Octavia L&K. She's my baby and I've done a few bits to her to make her look like she's mine :D
a pic of her;

a pic

and some more!

BBS LM wheels

urban

the lovely interior!

stereo + dvd+ navigation + phone + TV Tuner!!


I do go on, and this is a long old biography. I hope you liked it, and I hope you like my photos in the future,