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when taking photos of lightning do you use a super slow shutter speed or just take a load of photos and hope you get one at the right time?

I used a slow shutter and talked to Zeus.

Where do you live?

“The crime capital of Australia”

i love all your work.

I am grateful, thank you.

“The year was 1978, my then girlfriends father went to Hong Kong on a business trip from Australia. In the Canon store he walked with the intention of purchasing a camera for me, upon my request. Cameras were a lot cheaper in Hong Kong than they were in Australia; I paid around $190 for it, and it was a toss up between the Canon AT-1 and the AE-1.  I can’t remember why I gave the AT-1 the nod, but it proved its worth. From falling in love with your mother, having 4 children and then being packed away in the early 2000’s, the AT-1 captured some of my most precious memories.” 
 That was the story my father told me of how he got his first SLR camera. 
In 2009 I discovered the Canon AT-1 in a dusty old camera bag under my parents bed, I pulled it out, dusted it off, and got my mother to show me how to load it with a fresh roll of 35mm, C-41 process film. Looking through that viewfinder and out of the manual focus, 50mm Canon lens, I quickly fell in love with the AT-1. When I got my first roll developed, I then fell in love with the process of film photography and wanted to know more and do more with it.  The desire I had for it oozed out into my every day life, always having the AT-1 with me, experimenting with different exposure lengths, shutter speeds, films and lenses, it quickly became my number one passion in life.
My fathers first SLR, passed down to me as my first SLR and still my favourite camera.
This is a still life I did of that camera in the studio yesterday. 
An afternoon in the hood.

There is so much I know I don’t know, and there is probably way more I don’t know that I dont know, but I don’t know that yet.