Photographic Luddite - learned on Aperture Priority Nikon EL2 SLR, Manual Rollei TLR and Minox compact in the 70's and loved spending time in the darkroom. I still have the Nikon and the Minox, but neither have been used in anger for over 20 years.

Mostly into landscape, but large sub category of motor sports, especially from Le Mans before the wire netting went up. Still going, but I leave my camera at home.

I went through a range of tele lenses for the motorsport pictures - Nikkor 200mm f4, Tamron SP 350mm 5.6 cat, Nikkor zoom 75-300 f5.6, and Nikkor 80-200mm f4.5.

All a bit on the slow side for motor sports, that's why all the ones on grey days look soft because the lenses would have been wide open.

I could never hand hold anything longer than 200mm, so at race meetings used a rifle grip. But I think some of the old shots are OK considering that there was no such thing as autofocus or image stabilisation.

Slowly getting the older slides scanned.

Re-kindling my interest with the Sigma DP2 - a modern day Olympus Trip but with exceptional image quality. Yes I know it's slow, has a funny sensor and no zoom, but it suits me just fine and is a damn site cheaper than the Leica!