These are a few photos I've taken, from the year following me getting a camera for my birthday in May 1998.
My camera is a Nikon F301. It's a manual focus, but auto-exposure, SLR. Most of the pictures are taken with a Nikon series E 50mm lens, which came with the camera. A few are taken with a Sigma 28-80 zoom; as a cheaper lens and a zoom the quality is noticably worse so I prefer to use the 50mm lens where possible, but the extra flexibility of a zoom is sometimes useful. I also have a Sigma 70-300 zoom, which seems to be better made than the 28-80 and I've found quite useful, but I didn't have it when any of the photos here were taken.
I'd like to scan these again some time, as some of these are rather over-compressed. I've also got a lot more photos now.
I was a student in Cambridge at the time I got the camera.
00003 - Mill pit
00005 - Peterhouse deer park
00009 - Front of Peterhouse
00011 - Peterhouse by night
00014 - Bluebells
00020 - Cows
00027 - My kitchen
00030 - Boathouses on the Cam
00033 - My family punting
00103 - Windowsill
I went on a holiday with my family to the Peak District in June 1998.
00105 - Rocks and moss
00111 - Ducks
00114 - Bridge in Dovedale
00119 - Nettles
00120 - Black and white cows
00121 - Dry stone wall and fields
00123 - Lane through village
00125 - Castle
00201 - Pink flower
00202 - Ruined building
00204 - Tree in meadow
00205 - Ruined building
00209 - Bridge
00212 - Side of bridge
00215 - Running water
00218 - Big tree
00219 - Small flowers
00224 - Rocky valley
00226 - Feeders or flowerpots?
00227 - Moth
00230 - Another valley
00233 - My family on a hilltop
I lived for a while in Portchester, near the castle. I still live fairly near, in Locks Heath.
00303 - Portsmouth harbour
00306 - Chalk
00312 - Garden flower
00314 - A mess
00317 - Beach at dusk
00318 - Portsmouth harbour at night
00323 - Stormy weather
00327 - Pool by the coast
00330 - Power cables
00331 - Berries
00002 - Electronics project
My ex-housemate's scanner, which these were scanned on, has an occasional fault which gives scans a red tone. While generally undesirable, the result is rather attractive on this photo
