Photographer: Adrian Kentleton (K=3030)
Kelso, Roxburghshire Scotland, UK 
About: I have been interested in photography since 1981 after buying an SLR to photograph my new-born son, and then adding 35 and 100 mm lenses. I quickly decided that one major difference between a 'snap' and a photograph is in what is excluded; one must actively manage the scene, removing unwanted elements, or choosing time or viewpoint or lens to optimise it.
A spell in a camera club introduced me to 'pictorial' photography, and black and white darkroom skills. For a few years, I freelanced as a press photographer, and always tried to get it right 'in the camera'; a good negative made life so much easier and most of my colour work was on transparency film. Pro work taught me that a photo's purpose should dictate how it's taken and presented.
I'd used a variety of conventional film 35mmm SLRs, and dabbled with medium format TLRs, but went digital in 2000, reckoning the cameras were then good enough to justify the switch. I love the immediacy, freedom and ongoing economy of digital, the ease of managing a collection of images, and the diagnostic benefits of file metadata such as exposure details.
I grapple with the ideas that the real subject of a photograph should be the light, and how it is rendered, and that the difference between a mere photograph and 'art' is universalisability, and you shouldn't need explanations to 'get it'.
Latterly, I have become conscious of the tremendous beauty in simple, ordinary, everyday things, especially the landscape, when light and weather lift it; you don't have to go to 'beauty spots' to find beauty. So, that's what my photography is about, or aspires to be.
Thank you, Usefilmers, for all the inspiration your wonderful images provide, and for the encouragement and insights in your comments - invaluable since nowadays I struggle to achieve anything worthwhile, and sometimes the muse deserts me completely. Thanks also for opening my eyes to some of the other possibilities in photography.
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