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It is always interesting to see these lovely pictures on the Bamburgh castle and scenes of Holy Island on the wall in his house when I go visit them in Northumberland, England. After me taking interest in photography I once asked him where had he gotten all these different pictures from. He told me, “I took them, around 20 years ago”, this really surprised me. An hour after me asking him this question he took these pieces of equipment and a box full of prints out. He showed me the Nikon F4, a beautiful film camera, which was one of the last ones to come out before the digital era. I was really surprised that after all these years he still had it and had kept all the prints of the different nature scenes he had photographed over the years. It was incredible for me to see this, especially the pictures of Bamburgh castle and Holy Island pictures because he had pictures of them where you could see the different seasons of the year, snowing, raining, sunrise, foggy etc. and how the tide came in and out of Holy Island. This Nikon had travelled with him through many journeys and he was able to immortalize moments by the way he framed and exposed the scene he had in front of him. When I went back to visit after two years he told me he had found some more prints but then I asked him, “Why don’t you shoot anymore”? He told me that since the digital era arise he stopped taking pictures because it took the most important thing out of photography which was not completely knowing what you had shot until you got in the light room, which he had where the bathroom is now, and developed and edited it by adding light and shadows by the movement of your hands for later drying. That time I visited him, it was my purpose to make him love photography again, but he didn’t know how to use my digital DSLR so I convinced him to go out to Bamburgh and Holy Island and for him just to tell me what to frame and how to shoot, this was incredible because he had gone back all those years and felt what it was like to frame, expose and shoot. I didn’t show him the pictures until I had changed them all to black and white like he used to do it, he was astonished. He has now gone back to take pictures during holidays and occasionally goes out to his town and just shoots for pure fun.