Description: Andrew Banner, photographer based on the Norfolk Broads offering photographic services and wall art
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W hen I was young, my Grandfather gave me a camera, a Kodak Junior II folding camera: the very one you see here. It still wears the labels that my gramps stuck to it to remind him how it worked. Most of the time, I took such things apart to find out how they worked which is something they never did again. But, this item was different: I learned to use it and it still works today and remains in its original box.
I took snap shots, family shots, holiday pictures. Just like everybody else and, at this time, all in black and white, though I no longer know where any of these photos are.
I had no understanding of composition and my father told me to always shoot with the sun behind me. Armed with a Western Lightmeter, I quickly began to understand exposure. I couldn't afford not to: film and processing weren't cheap. At school, I was just about the only pupil to use the dark room and was even trusted with the key. Yet, photography wasn't my only passion; I was a tech geek. I knew more about computing than some of the computing teachers and this is where I went in my career.