The Itchen Navigation Canal

My Partner Merv (T-bone Travis - check out his blog), has encouraged me to create my first blog and put up a few of my photographs. I have been interested in photography since about the age of 10, very much encouraged by my father, who gave me my first basic 110 camera, and a couple of years later progressing to an SLR. I was further encouraged further by my uncle Carl Albrecht in America, who was a professional photographer, and regularly had work published in American magazines in the 1950s. He was a great photographer and he used to do all my photographic developing and printing. He sent me a twin lens reflex camera together with loads of lens and I did have lots of fun with that back in the 1980s and 90s. However still today I'm not a technical photographer, but I do enjoy the beauty of the landscape and the world around me, and the little details. Photography is always rewarding for me; to appreciate the small details in my surroundings, notice the shadows , light and shade is quite joyful.

I am starting this blog essentially as an online forum for my photographs that I like, but also I might develop this into a bit of an online diary, with memories of good times from the past and certainly those I know I'm going to have in the future, through photographs.

So, for starters, I thought I would share these two photos taken along the Itchen Navigation Canal at Eastleigh and Brambridge in May.

Feedback on my photos is always welcome - do say whatever comes to mind, good or bad!

Love

Claire x