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Several years ago I started to explore the world of digital photography with little anticipation as to how far this journey would take me.

Having used a 35 mm SLR throughout my days at college and university I was no stranger to the prin–ciples of photography. However, since graduating in 1994, with an Honours degree in Fine Art from the Nottingham Trent University, the digital age has taken photography to whole new, and positively amazing, heights. Suddenly a world of possibilities has exploded and the technical effects once painstakingly mastered in the darkroom are now achievable on a desktop! Gone is the necessity for a darkroom, ...

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