About Me
Welcome to On the Radar.
I'm 61 years old and live in Tring, England - In the heart of the beautiful Chiltern Hills.
By day I'm a painter & decorator but I have always loved photography and began by using an old Brownie box camera; graduating to my Father's old Braun "Paxette", before getting my first "serious" camera- a Pentax ME Super- in 1979.
This carried me through for many years including being my means to record my round the World trip in 1998-99, until 2000 when it was stolen and I replaced it with a Minolta Dynax 5.
I resisted the digital "revolution" for a few years before dipping my toe in the water by purchasing a Nikon Coolpix 4500-initially for "digiscoping" birds.
Being able to edit and store pictures electronically was a revelation and in 2005 I purchased a Nikon D70 and began to explore digital photography more deeply.
A trip to Kenya in 2007, where for the first time I shot mainly in RAW format, showed me the potential of the digital darkroom.
Gradually "NAS" (Nikon Acquisition Syndrome) led me to buying up one of the many Nikon D200s that came onto the second hand market since the advent of the D300.
In 2012, keen to explore Full Frame photography, I bought a D700, and in 2024 added a D800 to the arsenal, which is an even more stunning camera.
KIT!.
CAMERAS.
Nikon D800
Nikon D700
Nikon D200
Nikon D70
Nikon F80
Sony RX100 Mk I
LENSES.
Nikon Nikkor 28-300mm FX
Nikon Nikkor 18-35mm FX
Nikon Nikkor 80-400mm Mk II
Nikon Nikkor f3.5-5.6 18-200mm VR DX
Nikon Nikkor f3.5 18-70mm DX
Nikon Nikkor f1.8 50mm
Nikon Nikkor f1.8 35mm DX
Sigma f2.8 105mm macro DX
Sigma f2.8 70-200mm
Sigma f2.8 300mm
Irix f4 11mm
Nikon f2.8 45mm Tilt/ Shift
Sigma 1.4x converter.
Other pictures are captured via my Nikon ED78 Fieldscope and adaptor.
Digital editing is via Photoshop 2025 and Adobe Lightroom on my Hewlett Packard laptop.
I'm 61 years old and live in Tring, England - In the heart of the beautiful Chiltern Hills.
By day I'm a painter & decorator but I have always loved photography and began by using an old Brownie box camera; graduating to my Father's old Braun "Paxette", before getting my first "serious" camera- a Pentax ME Super- in 1979.
This carried me through for many years including being my means to record my round the World trip in 1998-99, until 2000 when it was stolen and I replaced it with a Minolta Dynax 5.
I resisted the digital "revolution" for a few years before dipping my toe in the water by purchasing a Nikon Coolpix 4500-initially for "digiscoping" birds.
Being able to edit and store pictures electronically was a revelation and in 2005 I purchased a Nikon D70 and began to explore digital photography more deeply.
A trip to Kenya in 2007, where for the first time I shot mainly in RAW format, showed me the potential of the digital darkroom.
Gradually "NAS" (Nikon Acquisition Syndrome) led me to buying up one of the many Nikon D200s that came onto the second hand market since the advent of the D300.
In 2012, keen to explore Full Frame photography, I bought a D700, and in 2024 added a D800 to the arsenal, which is an even more stunning camera.
KIT!.
CAMERAS.
Nikon D800
Nikon D700
Nikon D200
Nikon D70
Nikon F80
Sony RX100 Mk I
LENSES.
Nikon Nikkor 28-300mm FX
Nikon Nikkor 18-35mm FX
Nikon Nikkor 80-400mm Mk II
Nikon Nikkor f3.5-5.6 18-200mm VR DX
Nikon Nikkor f3.5 18-70mm DX
Nikon Nikkor f1.8 50mm
Nikon Nikkor f1.8 35mm DX
Sigma f2.8 105mm macro DX
Sigma f2.8 70-200mm
Sigma f2.8 300mm
Irix f4 11mm
Nikon f2.8 45mm Tilt/ Shift
Sigma 1.4x converter.
Other pictures are captured via my Nikon ED78 Fieldscope and adaptor.
Digital editing is via Photoshop 2025 and Adobe Lightroom on my Hewlett Packard laptop.