When I first started travelling with my job I would go to whichever country was required, do whatever I had been sent to do and then, sit in my Hotel and wait for the plane home. I often spent many hours just waiting in airports. When I was sent to the USA I was determined to see what was outside the Hotel, and its true to say that my visit to San Francisco was the first time I did just that. Upon my return I decided that I needed either a camcorder or a 'good' camera for my future trips, but I could not afford both.In the end I bought what was then a highly regarded camcorder, the Canon E60. As time progressed I did also buy a good camera (a Nikon 35mm SLR), as my later photographs show. I had not used the camcorder for nearly fifteen years and when I did dig it out, it was no more. I borrowed another and have digitally remastered all my tapes (ie they are on DVD now). Having worked through the DVDs, the galleries below feature some of the frames from those tapes. The quality is not too good but the memories are.
When I processed the camcorder images to digital format I had a few problems with the aspect ratio and this became more of a problem when I began to capture still images; single frames. For this reason you may observe a slight 'stretch effect' depending upon your monitor, and I can't allow for that. On my widescreen NEC 2080UX+ they appear fine, but on my Acer AL1916 there is a little 'distortion'.
Spruce Head
Bar Harbor
Cape Cod
Tuscon studio
Grand Canyon
Sedona
Tombstone
Phoenix
The Desert
Rawhide
Lake Saguaro
Around Phoenix
ICBM Silo
North London
Dublin airport
Rome
Stockholm
Amsterdam
Depart Plymouth
Santander-Valencia
Valencia-France
South of France
Italy-Lugano
Lugano
Switzerland-Baden
Baden-Germany
Germany-Koln
Holland/Belguim
Northern France
Portsmouth, Home
