Welcome, have a browse and please email to let me know what you think of my site.    

Contact - crabbygaz@yahoo.co.uk                           

To find the pictures, choose a file from the 'navigation' bar on the left of the screen. This will lead to folders of photographs.

If you have been before, welcome back, if you are new, then just welcome.

News for February 2010 is that I have joined the local photographic club, Ware and District Photographic Society. I have been going since September and enjoy Wednesday evenings meeting up with a great group of people to share an interest in photography. I have started to take part in the competitions, and I am doing well in the beginners section, with a number of my images getting good scores. I will be posting the images on my Flickr site, so if you want to follow my progress, jump over to Billywindsock on Flickr.

There has been a shift away from using images that are 1200 pixels wide to 800. This is so I can use the pictures on here to link to other websites and forums directly. I post on RMweb now and then and the images are hosted on here. RMweb is a model railways forum with lots of information, pictures and chat about models, railways, and a little bit of everyday life - recomended.

You will see the Flickr bar on the right, this is where I put larger images, better quality than those on this site because there is no size restriction - some of the images I have on Flickr are 10Mb, compared to about 150kb on here.

Enough of the tech, what you will see here are photographs I have taken on my visits around heritage railways, aeroplane displays, and museums as well as general pictures that take my fancy. I did a basic photography course at Hertfordshire Regional College in 2006/7 and learned a few new tricks. I have been using a camera for many years, starting with an old Zenit E when I was about 13 and moving through a Pentax A3 and a K1000 onto digital with a Nikon D50 and then my current camera, a Nikon D80. When money is available I would like to move on to a D300, mostly for the improvements in ISO range and quality of image, but by the time I have the money the D300 will probably be an antique.

Just as an offer to anyone passing through, if you email me with the details of any picture I have on this site I will send you a printed copy, A4 size, printed on my Canon iP6700D, free of charge. One per visitor until further notice. If you use the link to Flickr and see an image of mine on there you would rather have, that will be fine.

This site is quite easy to look after thanks to my helpful host (many thanks Matt) and because it is built using Plone - have a go yourself and keep safe surfing.

Have a look at the site map, which you will find at the top of this page. This will let you wander around and see everything there is to see.

Please contact me via email at crabbygaz@yahoo.co.uk