Malcolm Bowditch
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Profile: My interest in photography started in my mid-teens (~ 1953) when I bought a truly appalling 35mm Edixa camera. After a Paxette (not good) and an Ensign Autorange (great Ross Express lens) I finished up in 1961 with a Rolleiflex T. I was a joint founder member of the now long-gone Admiralty Materials P.S. My interest lapsed for many years from the mid-sixties when we moved and I no longer had – or could afford – a darkroom. It was in 2002 that I realised the potential of digital photography and that a darkroom was no longer necessary. I bought a Fuji camera nominally 6MP but actually 3MP and joined Blandford C.C.that same year. I joined because Norman Carey at Blandford was the local digital guru and I knew nothing at all. I did also feel a connection with the club because I had exhibited at their annual exhibition on several occasions in the early 1960’s. I now use Canon DSLR’s with a variety of lenses and, having worked in colour digitally for a while (because I could), I now appear to have reverted to my original interest and concentrate mostly on monochrome work. As subjects, I find people interesting though I don’t do portraiture. People in a working environment or as subjects in street photography are a source of endless fascination. Still life is also of great interest.
