This photo blog is a collaboration between Penny Vincent and Tony Jones. We are partners who encourage one-another's imaging. Tone has rheumatoid arthritis, which has limited his photography recently.

We both regularly contribute images - macro images of plants, landscape, informal portraits and low-light photographs.

Tone - Tone's blog
I've been taking photographs on and off since the age of twelve, owning a variety of cameras, simple and complex, over the years (Agfa bakelite 127 thing, Ilford Sportsman, Halina 35x, Olympus Trip 35, Zenith E, Praktika, Canon AE1, Olympus XA2, Ricoh XD7 amongst others) - I also had a darkroom in the '70s.

I came to digital photography in early 2000 and felt an instant sense of freedom when loosed from the bonds of film - no more waiting too see if the shot turned out, no more waiting for processing (sometimes forever if I lost the film), no reluctance to experiment
Film has many good points (especially its latitude), but digital has definitely given me the space to grow as a photographer.

Pen - Pen's blog
I cannot remember not having a camera. My Dad, John, is a very keen amateur who taught me the basics pretty well when I was young. He bought me a Kodak Retinette IIB when I was about 13. I then had a truly awful Kodak disc camera at 15 - such poor quality - but I was at the age when snapping friends was all I wanted a camera for. For a long time that's all I did. I dug out my Retinette when Tone and I toured Europe a few years ago, for black and white photos - some of which are beautiful and I may scan them in to put on this blog sometime.

Like Tone, when we got our first digital camera I found the immediacy very satisfying.

 

- Nikon D80 & D70 digital SLR bodies
- Nikon F55 film SLR body
- Nikon Coolpix P2 & Canon IXUS 40 digital compacts
- Kodak Retinette IIB film camera
- Nikkor AF-S 18-70mm ED f3.5-4.5
- Nikkor AF 70-300mm G f4.5-5.6
- Sigma 12-24mm DG EX f4.5-5.6
- Sigma 50mm DG EX f2.8 macro
- Nikkor AF 28-100mm G f3.5-5.6
- Nikon SB800 speedlight / - Centon MR20 macro ring-flash
- Velbon tripod / Jessops monopod
- H-Drive II - a 30Gb hard disk and multi-card reader combo

 

The copyright for all the images on this blog resides with "atypical" - Penny Vincent & Tony Jones, under UK law
Please contact us before using any of our images - we will not unreasonably refuse permission.