I will always remember the early days of my passion for photography when I could hardly wait to borrow my father's camera and go exploring the local streets for interesting things to photograph. I also remember how simple those days were - a basic SLR camera, a roll of slide film, and a trip to the local store for developing the photos. Even when I entered photography professionally and began to specialise in high quality black and white printing, the technical side of photography was still quite straight forward.

Now with the exciting world of digital photography, so many things have changed. The technical scope for learning seems never ending for the professional photographer and the new tools available are both exciting and at times daunting. For me now only a small part of the process is taking the photo. The rest of the time is taken up correcting the image with the software, calibrating equipment, and printing the image.

Today's photographer must also explore the large world of promotion available via the internet and all that this entails. Who would have thought as a young kid, you could develop a website on a computer and then upload it to another part of the world at great speed for someone in another country to view your work - exciting times.

Fortunately with all these new tools available for today's photographer one thing does not change, and that is raw talent, which I love to see in any artistic work. My father once told me of a saying by the great Louis Armstrong "if you ain't got it, I can't teach it to you". I hope you enjoy viewing my website and if you would like to contact me my details are on the left of this screen.

With kind regards

Barry Collins - Photographer
Sydney NSW Australia