Welcome to Jabber's Profile.......

or should I say blow my trumpet.

I was born on December 21st 1959 in Manchester. Some would say getting on a bit if they are younger than me.

I live in a small town called Oldham in Greater Manchester, England and I must admit that it is freezing during winter period and the clouds tend to empty over Oldham to get over the hills to Yorkshire. I’m a BMW driver but, not quite as arrogant as most BMW drivers, I will give way to at least one car. I have two daughters and whoever says it stops costing money when they are working is a liar.

Previously I lived in Belfast which I enjoyed very much and would like to return eventually to finish the rest of my days, but I visit as frequently as possible.

Occupation:

IT/AV Technical support officer for a busy NHS Medical education Centre for medical staff. My job mainly comprises of digital imaging for presentation material for teaching purposes and audiovisual support, I also support the doctors with IT related issues. And yes they are hard to work with, it can be very interesting at times so they tell me.

Qualifications: (Not many)

H.N.C Business Information Technology

ECDL
ITQ

Personal Interests: (Anorak)

I like walking and visiting historic places, houses and gardens in UK and Europe. I also enjoy gardening very much.

I really enjoy all aspects of photography and love getting out and about taking pictures when I have the time within my local area.

Recently I have become interested in creating websites, hence this site was created just to see if I could do it.

I also run one of the MSN groups in the photography category that just happens to be one of the most popular ones (Digital Photography Club).  I have been manager for a few years now and I still enjoy it as much as I did at the beginning.

Photography & Imaging:

I became interested in imaging about 15 years ago and as time progressed the photography side of things has grown.  I have been using digital cameras for about 9 years and at present I use a Canon Digital Ixus V (my pocket digi), Nikon 5700, Nikon 5000 and Nikon D50.  I’d love to be a paparazzi photographer but I’m not bold enough to walk up to anyone and just take their picture. I have also always wanted to create a poster that fits down the side of a building or on billboards purely out of curiosity to see what it looked like. I’ve been using Adobe Photoshop for around 10 years + and would say my skill level is between intermediate/advanced. I really like the potential of being able to enhance my photography and make my pictures worthy of hanging on walls.

Some of the gear I use is getting a little dated now, but I find with the digital camera revolution that I don’t use the older gear as much these days, in fact very rarely:

Epson 4990 flatbed scanner with a built in transparency adapter mainly used for scanning old photographs, I also have Polaroid sprintscan film scanner for scanning negatives and film and finally a Polaroid CI3000 Digital Pallet film printer.

I can use most image manipulation software, but the one I use the most is Photoshop CS along side a Wacom graphics tablet.

I use Epson printers for printing though they are getting a little dated now:

Stylus Colour 1520

Stylus Photo 2000P

Stylus Photo 870

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