My name is Richard O Keates, husband of AnnaKirsten who introduced me to this site.
My main interest is in photography.BIOWell, I'm 64 years of age and feel as though life has only just begun, having "retired" just a year early through redundancy after working for the same firm for 48 years. How silly of me!
A keen photographer for as far back as I can remember, I and a small group of others, was a founder member of a local photographic group known as Coloursound 70, in which we put many slide shows together and via means of the very first automatic duofade known at that time, (I made it) we presented shows of Hardy's Dorset to tourists. This gradually widened to include shows of slides taken in other countries and in Ireland and Scotland. In later years, the duofade device became developed into a computerised three projector system by various companies including Kodak. We had a lot of fun in those days, and also enjoyed the country walks in all weathers, just to get "that shot"!
I have always been a Minolta fan, and these days I use a Minolta Dimage 7i digital camera, and recently acquired a very valuable addition in the form of a Konica Minolta telephotoconverter ACT-100 1.5x lens. Next I am looking to upgrade the camera!
I just enjoy pure photography, whilst my wife rather enjoys using photographs to "do other things with"!!! I have equal regard for her artwork though! (Well I have to say that, don't I!) Richard.
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