FOTOFIX NOW
For many years I have been involved with music in a teaching capacity and playing professionally.....from brass bands in the beginning and then onto big bands and freelancing.
In my early teens I was given a old camera by a neighbour , so here my photography journey started. Very much experimental and the pictures weren't that great, and it was cold...it was the horrendous Winter of 1963. I dabbled for a few years more, but struggled to get to grips with composition etc. The camera came out only on special occasions as my music ambitions took preference.
In 2003 I began to learn computer skills after retiring from teaching and gradually my interest in photography returned with the inauguration of the "Digital Age" along with processing software.
I have amassed a huge collection of photographs which includes many photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries which have needed much restoration.
Not wanting to become a couched potato I have channelled what energy I have left into occasional photography and, as you will see here, photo restoration.
I work on a non profit basis, so, I thought it would be uplifting as well as therapeutic to engage with photography and use my remaining skills to use the profits for donation to my charities.
Giving to institutions which help other people
Royal Victoria Infirmary & Guide Dogs
Thank you!