Stephen Mitchell's Camera Journey
My first camera was a classic ‘InstaMatic’ polaroid that held 12 film and measured 12cm in every direction.
The next camera looked like an oversized spy-camera. Held between the forefinger and thumb of each hand, every other finger avoided covering the lens. I still enjoyed capturing images.
In the 1980’s, I progressed to an SLR with a 28mm and Zoom Lens. With these two lens, I shot about 200 photographs at the 1985 Adelaide Grand Prix. This included running down pit-straight with a few hundred other energetic people when the last car on its final-lap, shooting sides of faces of smiling race-drivers, champagne bottles and lots of spectators!
But the cost of development made this hobby prohibitive. Between jobs and strapped for cash, I re-pawned all my camera gear (to the same shop I got it from!) and returned to searching the job-market after the ‘recession we had to have’.
When the new millennium began I was newly married and we planned to go overseas ASAP: Northern Territory (‘99), Canberra & Queensland (‘00), and New Zealand (‘01). For AUS$600, we purchased a Canon EOS 500D. With 30x36f rolls, a whole lotta luck, great weather, we shot a lot of amazing photography in New Zealand.
In 2003, before a family wedding the Digital-Era hit the Australian market. Again, we purchased a Canon IXUS v2 dSLR with which I shot an amazing array of photographs (from weddings to macros) until February 2007.
In 2007 we both caught the camera-bug with a vengeance! Funds became available (scrimping and saving) and we purchased one Canon EOS 400D. Within a month, we had to purchase a second camera to save our marriage (kidding!) because we kept fighting to use the camera. Two years on, I have a formidable collection of lens, a studio in progress, and a business on the rise.
Ranging from rural scenes to small towns through to the capital cities of Australia, we’ve shot many different images around Australia, capturing a lot of great footage!
We regularly visit Kangaroo Island and townships around South Australia to find extraordinary places and points to capture on our cameras!
I have many great photographs available to purchase on Canvas, Framed, Cards, Mounted and Laminated Prints.
