Newbie says hello

[evacguy]

Many thanks for accepting me into the fold. I love engineering light to create art, to capture beauty, to share moments, to freeze time and to physically connect to other worlds.

I only tookup photography as a serious hobby in March 2022, when I purchased, after much research, a Sony A7iv, Sony G 50mm f2.5 and Sony GM 70-200mm f2.8 OSS II. But I've always been interested in photography and had a camera back in the day of film!

My initial primary interest in photography was to take night sky photographs, but unfortunately, as things have turned out, I haven't been able to take much of those, but hope to in the near future. However, I also discovered my love of terrestrial photography and so have been enjoying street, wildlife, architecture and landscape photography. I also don't simply rely on my Sony kit, I like to use my Iphone14 Pro to take pictures, such a great little camera.

I hope to learn lots from my new friends in this community.

 

[FowlersFreeTime]

Welcome!

 

[Tim Mayo]

Welcome Ed and thank you for joining up here. It certainly sounds like you enjoy shooting a nice variety of subjects! I keep meaning to do some night photography but I'm in bed far too early these days due to two young boys wearing us out.

 

[evacguy]

Thanks Tim, your video on the 70-200 GM ii with 2.0x TC brought me to the group here (that is a great video!), so many thanks. Astro is quite difficult here in the UK, with the weather, and living in London with all the light pollution is another challenge, Bortle 8 skies makes it very difficult. One of the things I like about astro is the technical challenges, both in the field and at the computer, so I hope to seriously get into it soon. But the late nights are a drag, if you have kids, or if you over a certain age (like me!), sometimes you just want to sit indoors, in the warm with a single malt and a good movie on the tele.

 

[evacguy]

Welcome Ed

Many thanks Charlyee.

 

[evacguy]

Welcome!

Many thanks FFT.