One of my very earliest photographs

Whilst looking through some of my old photographs earlier today, I found a photograph I took with my very first camera, a little 110 film camera that I had for my birthday when I was possibly about 10 years old. I loved this little camera, although the results were a bit grainy to say the least.

I scanned in one of my very first and favourite photos that I took when I was about 10 or 11 years old, taken at one of the Lakes in the Lake District.  We had many family holidays there as a child, staying with old friends of the family, friends that had worked with my dad at Southern Television.  Holidays were fun times with them, remembering old times at the Studio and lots of laughter.  I took delight in the fact that "Uncle Eric" (being rather vertically challenged) was smaller than I by the time I was a teenager.  He was a lovely and jolly man, and was a constant feature in my childhood years.  He had a great love of cycling and hill walking, and took all the family on some lovely walks in the Lake District.  He also had a very strong Lancashire accent which I loved to imitate and was usually quite fluent by the time I returned home!

I remember taking this photo - dad - always an encouragement to me with photography - called over to me that this would make a lovely photo - so I quickly took it (you only took one photo of each scene in those days due to the expense of using film - none of this multi image digital photography).  I was quite pleased with the way it came out.  I have tried to bring it back to life on my computer, after all it is 35 years old!