Vic's Pix
My photography
I've always enjoyed taking photographs. I think my first camera was a Kodak disk camera which I remember using on family holidays when I was about seven years old. (I wonder whatever happened to that camera?!)
In 2000-2001 I went backpacking around the world with some friends. I saw so many beautiful places and was amazed at what a wonderful world God has given us. It was whilst lying flat on my stomach on a small pontoon on the edge of Lake Matheson in New Zealand, trying to capture the reflection of Mount Cook in the water, then that I decided that I should learn how to take photos properly. I wanted to be able to do justice to these scenes by taking decent pictures of them. So when I returned from my trip I enrolled on a evening class at my local Art College and started buying photo magazines.
I currently use a Minolta Dynax 5 - a film camera which serves me well but am considering the switch to digital. I also have a passion for panoramic photos, triggered by visiting the galleries of Australian photographers Ken Duncan and Peter Lik, and invested in a Hasselblad XPAN II in 2004.
I don't profess to be a great photographer, but I hope that with my photos I capture special moments that I see around me.
“For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.”
Romans 1:20
About Me
Favourite Camera
Hasselblad XPAN II
Favourite Subjects
Landscape, Travel
Favourite Photographers
Ansel Adams, Joe Cornish, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ken Duncan