When ill health demanded that I retire from teaching in Glasgow after more than thirty years,I had to decide how to spend my days taking into account mobility problems brought about by respiratory illness.. I bought a bargain priced camera through Amazon and almost immediately was hooked on a new pastime..
After about a year I heard about the Dumbarton Cine, Video and Digital Club through my involvement with local history and the Lennox Heritage Society. On joining the Club, I learned about photo-editing and slide-shows. Before long I was adding text, titles, voice-overs and putting the results on youtube..
My dear spouse had inherited her father's collection of slides and cine film on his demise and I learned how to digitise this material. Converting the cine film inspired me to invest in a second-hand cinecam and before long I thought was taking over from an Attenborough, either Richard or David..
Meeting fellow enthusiasts has encouraged my interest to the point where I wonder how I fitted a job into my earlier life..
Jaunts around Scotland with a couple of very good friends provide countless opportunities for film and photography and in the past two years I have got to know so much more about a very special wee country.
After about a year I heard about the Dumbarton Cine, Video and Digital Club through my involvement with local history and the Lennox Heritage Society. On joining the Club, I learned about photo-editing and slide-shows. Before long I was adding text, titles, voice-overs and putting the results on youtube..
My dear spouse had inherited her father's collection of slides and cine film on his demise and I learned how to digitise this material. Converting the cine film inspired me to invest in a second-hand cinecam and before long I thought was taking over from an Attenborough, either Richard or David..
Meeting fellow enthusiasts has encouraged my interest to the point where I wonder how I fitted a job into my earlier life..
Jaunts around Scotland with a couple of very good friends provide countless opportunities for film and photography and in the past two years I have got to know so much more about a very special wee country.