Scriptor Senex

Joining Heather, Jen, Shabby Girl, Dan, and GB on a photography blog promises to be great fun. I look forward to others joining us as well. It enables me to combine four great passions - photography, natural history, friendship and blogging. If I then wrote a book about it that would sum me up since reading and writing are my other sources of sanity in this modern world which - at times - threatens to overwhelm me a bit.

My first camera was a bellows camera which took an odd size roll film (112 or 116?) but in the early 1960s I inherited a Halina from GB and that took the 'ultra-modern' 35mm film. Wow - that was exciting. Even more exciting was moving to colour slide photography in 1964. In 1985 I changed to colour print film - by then using Pentax SLRs. Then 2002 brought me into the digital age and my current camera is a Sony DSC-H1 - too chunky for most people but ideal for me.

Heather asked us to post a bit about ourselves and I cannot talk about me without mentioning my health (or lack of it) since it has an annoying impact on what I can do. Most noticeably it has stopped me driving and that restriction of movement is what saddens me most about it. But, with the help of my partner, my brother (GB) and my daughter I still get to see some exciting places. And, quite possibly, being able to get around less means I stop and look at things more closely than I used to. There's always an up-side to things.

If you want to find out more about me you are welcome to visit me at Rambles from my Chair or see my daily photo on Project 355.


I just managed to scrape into June with its green theme with this - a tree that caught my eye as GB was driving along near Dunblane in Scotland in May. I haven't played with it except to crop it slightly to move the tree from the centre of the picture, hopefully to give it a better balance.