David K's Dross

      So, just what did you expect to find on this page? I'm tall, ugly and incredibly bad tempered, some would say 'dim witted', though grudgingly admitting that I can take the odd interesting photograph (sometimes very odd ;o). I've been playing with images for more years than most of you have lived. For the technically minded, I take reasonable snaps and then 'muck them up' in Photoshop. What's Photoshop? A software program produced by the ungodly that lets me combine imagination with a digital image and spawn the improbable.
    Though this is irrelevant and probably of little interest, I'm a Licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society, have a Credit from the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain and also happen to be Vice-President (dogs body) of Wakefield Camera Club. What else do I do? Obey all and every instruction that I am given by my Wife, Judith whilst striving to make life miserable for everyone else. That's all I feel inclined to tell you at the moment! 
     Though I suppose I should tell you what I do; most of you will just move on at this point!
I take photographs, that's obvious, but I also manipulate images. It would be nice to say that the majority of my work is designing some futuristic scene, or idyllic landscape, but the truth is very different. Most of my week is usually taken up with repairing pictures of someone's granny that has spent the last 40 years at the back of a drawer, or even worse, in some one's pocket. If I am lucky the client (that could be you) asks for something a little more challenging. Possibly combining two or more images, adding or removing things or people, even? If you can think it, we probably have tried to do it photographically. I am sometimes even asked to take photographs.

        Is any of this remotely of interest to you? Just contact me and I can talk through your problem. Don't ask what I charge, it all depends upon how long it takes to complete the task. In most cases this will be less than one hour, though I would be foolish to guess before having seen your picture if it's repair work. You could always hire me for half a day if you actually require some photography done, though forget it if you are planning a wedding, that is definitely something I don't want to do! 

 If the snake intrigues you,
just click on it, we all need a
 little adventure in our life.