When it began to dawn on me, back in 2003, that there was really a lot more than sparrows out there, in my own balcony, one of my first thoughts were that photography could be made a great ally in this new (to me) field and, incidentally, create amusement for others too.
Unfortunately, photography as I practice it (manual film cameras) requires quite a well fed purse.. that I haven't. Accordingly, my first bird-photographs exist only in negatives and a contact sheet—from which the photograph in the left was scanned and my only camera at that time (that Zenit 11 you see in the photo) began to show signs of ageing in the form of light leaks. I had not money enough to send the camera to repair and take photos at the same time, so I ended up deciding to run just a roll or two per year and praying that the leak didn't advance too much.
Combine that with the difficult (for me) task at hand and the long and short of it is that I didn't manage to take even barely good photos of birds till 2005, with a little 3 Mp Cybershot my sister lent me.
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