At age 9 I was given a 620 Imperial box camera by a sagacious aunt as a birthday gift. This led to black and white film development in my own darkroom - a converted outside toilet! Contact prints from large zen like square negatives soon followed… After graduation from art school a career followed as a printed surface designer and craftsman with a camera as a regular companion. The eventual evolutionary merger of creative disciplines with photography and the use of Macintosh computers coupled with a love of gardening now form the basis of my work. Please visit my main web site.
I guess I am a ‘confirmed gear head’, I salivate at the thought of possibilities of trying something with a camera I don’t own, or a lens that may have an obscure adapter for this or that body. However, when all is said and done its the work that counts. This blog is my work in progress, for the things that excite me or for the quirky images from plastic lens cameras, for the old and not often used cameras and for the (majority of?) shots that won’t or could not be used for commercial purposes. For those that are happy mistakes or the drawings that have an interesting quality that otherwise would not see the light of day !!!
If you like my work please add a comment or email me and lets talk about it.
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email: mail@michaelward.com.au