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Pete Bailey

How long have you been taking pictures and what sparked your interest in photography?

Well, my very first pictures were taken in childhood, when I was about 9 years old. I used my father's old Kodak "Bullet" camera, which had a bakelite body and took 127 roll film, just 8 exposures per roll! The camera had a history - my dad won it in a poker game, during a long train journey across Canada during the second world war. In my early twenties I acquired a Kodak pocket Instamatic - a present from a girlfriend. I enjoyed using it, but I was still very much a snapshotter, and not a particularly good one. I didn't get really passionate about photography until I was in my early thirties. My father-in-law-to-be showed me his new Zenit-E SLR, and something about it fascinated me. I was intrigued by the controls - I'd never looked closely at a proper SLR before, and the idea of having so much control really excited me. At that stage, all those numbers on the lens and the shutter-speed dial meant nothing to me, but I enjoy learning new things and saw that as a challenge. It just so happened that there was a TV program about photography around that time, too, and I was interested to hear how professionals tackle the job. Before long, my girlfriend (now wife) Kathryn decided to treat me to a camera like her dad's, and I started reading books to learn about exposure, f-stops, shutter speeds, and the rest. And that was it - that was when I started to get serious about photography.

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