I am a freelance photographer, singer-songwriter and science journalist. I remember being allowed to occasionally use a tiny pocket camera with a 4-strikes cube flash when I was a kid in the 1970s, it was usually on a summer holiday or at Christmas, but I didn’t take to photography properly until I started travelling in my late teens and early 20s – Europe, USA, Australia, Africa, more Europe, more USA, a lot of the UK too.
I really got into my stride with my first film SLR and a couple of photography courses and then the plunge into digital in the early 2000s. Agfa ePhoto 307 VGA camera (from 1996) to a pocket Nikon that got broken on the first day to a Canon Ixus (which also got broken on a camping trip) to Canon 20D to Canon 6D to Canon 7D mark ii and on to the mirrorless R7 in 2023. Canon 50mm prime, 24-105, 75-200mm, Sigma 150-600mm for the birds and wildlife, Tamron 90mm macro for the moths.
Throughout 2017 and into 2018, I focused on our feathered friends and in the summer of 2018 Lepidoptera and that continues apace. All interspersed with my relatively eclectic mix of landscapes, portraits, wildlife, plantlife, abstracts, events, festivals, and various oddities. Hope you enjoy a few of them, feel free to comment if you do.
Dave Bradley on Instagram here.
Dave Bradley’s Flickr photos here, although my Pro account will revert to a free account in Jan 2021.