Worthing, August 2005

Worthing Promenade, June 2005

June 2005

This year, I’ve been getting back into taking photographs more seriously.

I have two Canon AE1 bodies that have been with me for nearly 30 years. They aren’t mint. In fact they’re nicely worn like a comfortable old leather jacket. I pick them up and they disappear – I’ve taken so many thousands of photographs that I don’t have to think when I use them; they simply don’t get in the way.

I’ve also had three Canon lenses – 24mm, 50mm and 100mm – since the late 70s, and a Tamron 70-210mm zoom since sometime in the 80s. But a couple of weeks ago my wife bought me a near-mint Canon 35-70mm zoom off of eBay.

What an amazing experience! I hadn’t realized how much my brain thinks in terms of 24mm, 50mm, 100mm and longer focal lengths. Suddenly my familiar cameras aren’t any more!

Wow! The world looks different!