Home town history

26 years the city of York has been my home town born and bred here, funny thing is until recently armed with some of Nikons finest I have never taken the time to appreciate my surroundings. Its amazing how when you visit somewhere new you look around and take everything in and admire a foreign beauty, but when your moving around your home town for years on end it just turns into your everyday A to B head down journey. In York there is a lot of history and when you look around its so easy to fall in love with some of the architecture. At the moment I don't know the names or history of these places but I am setting myself a small project of learning more about the city I call home for my blog.

The middle two images have been sat on my hard drive for a while not doing a lot and the other four were just a recent day out in the city. Hopefully I will get a chance to add to these images very soon and maybe a little bit of information to go with these current shots. In the mean time arm yourself with your camera walk out the door and appreciate what you have begun to take for granted.

So why the name ?

Like I said in my first post I am not a professional, so why the name right? By now at some stage you've probably read the quote or seen a captioned picture reading something along the lines of, " Oh, you have an expensive camera? You must be a professional photographer ". And if you haven't you will at some point i'm sure of it. This is an image I want to avoid for myself at all costs, I know i'm not an amazing photographer or artist but I want to do it right. I am fortunate enough to have a very nice camera and most of my dream kit, my main body is a Nikon D800 with a 24-70 mm 2.8, 70-200 mm 2.8 vrII and a 50 mm 1.8 in backup I have a D7000 body and also have sb600 and sb910 speedlights.

It almost doesn't feel real that i'm able to write that as my kit list, granted the majority of that list is from a bank loan but I feel blessed that I have an opportunity that people far more talented may never have. So I need to earn this opportunity I need to propel myself from the image of being a "fauxtog" that guy with all the gear but no idea, to being a "protog" the one you can rely on to get the job done.

This is my son Tyler he is my world and i'm soon to be a father again. Family is what drives me to be better to make them proud of me. I'm not a great writer but I want to keep this blog going as a record of my achievements and also my setbacks and downfalls. Please feel free to comment below and join me on this journey of life and self discovery.

About this blog

About This Blog

First of all i'd like to say a big thank you for stopping by to check out my brand new blog. Firstly I want to say I am not a Professional photographer just a keen and passionate enthusiast. I have had a strong interest in photography for the past 7 years but in the last couple of years I have begun to take it a lot more serious. I have learnt a lot in the past couple of years but the more I look at it the more I realise I still know next to nothing. A big problem I think I have is trying to learn too much too quickly. As this is my first post I haven't even really figured out want I want to achieve, at this time I would say it is a log of what I have learnt as a record for mine and others future reference. But also it is to help me reflect a little and slow me down to a quality over quantity style of learning. 

Again for those of you who has read this many thanks and I hope you join me again in the future. In the mean time if your on twitter stop by and say hi here.