INTRODUCTION TO PHOTO GALLERY

I’ve always enjoyed taking photographs, but over the last few years I’ve become a little more serious about it, investing in better cameras and generally taking more thought and care with the pictures.

Although I’ve had a fair few shots published, I still regard myself as an amateur photographer. The digital revolution has made photographers of us all and there is a wealth of technical features not only built into the camera itself but available in online packages such as Photoshop. Personally, I’m not in favour of too much artificial enhancement and I prefer the picture I print to be pretty much the picture that I originally took – so you won’t find much in the way of jiggery-pokery with my images.

Like most people who take pictures, I am inspired by landscape and the passage of the seasons, but seascapes, skyscapes and cityscapes also inspire me. Apart from my wife, Lisa who is by far my favourite model, I have to admit that I don’t seem particularly interested in photographing people much (and often get irked when they walk into my shots!).

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Anyway, this gallery will be an ongoing record of what I consider to be my very best pictures. Anybody who might be interested in acquiring prints of particular photographs can contact me at lisa.roberts@live.co.uk

I’d also like to give a plug here to The Leicester People’s Photographic Gallery on Belvoir Street which does an excellent job of exhibiting work by local talent.

The mirror-images which accompany this introduction, by the way, were both taken in Corralejo, Fuerteventura in 2012.