MIKE BYFORD photography

My interest in photography stems from a early age when as a young lad in the 60’s I would follow my Father into his darkroom and watch, as if by magic through the red light hue, an image appear on a sheet of photographic paper in the developing tray.

Marriage, kids and work curtailed a serious pursuit of photography until many years later when in 1988 I “upgraded” from film to my first digital camera a Fuji ds-h1 with its 400k resolution (less than ½ a Megapixel in today’s terms) and effectively moved the darkroom onto the computer. Technology has raced ahead since and my present Canon 1ds Mk2 & 5D Mk2 cameras produce a 17 and 21 Megapixel images.

It has been said that this will be the lost generation in photography, no more sepia aged prints for the grandchildren to wonder at because only a small portion of digital images will ever get printed and the remainder will disappear from history following a Microsoft blue screen of death or hard drive failure.



I always back up my images & print out the best photographs at a3 size in which I can see far more detail than on a small computer screen. They bring back many good memories of the capture – early and late sorties chasing the light, yomping across land with a 13 kg backpack of kit and the sights and sounds of nature whilst waiting for the optimum moment.

Mike Byford