Michael Stretton
about
A forklift driver, a furniture sprayer, a craft supply packer and an engineering labourer. These are the jobs that have occupied me throughout my life - jobs that make my hobby of photography so much more enjoyable.
Our planet, one of eight and the only one to contain life, gives us endless photographic possibilities, there's always a shot to be had somewhere. I have always loved landscapes and every country offers us something different. I also thoroughly enjoy the photography of others with night time cityscapes and urban decay being favourites that I enjoy viewing.
I bought my first camera at the age of 16, a Kodac cartridge camera before moving into 35mm film at the age of eighteen. That camera was a Ricoh XR500 which took Pentax lenses. In 2007 I made the jump over to digital with a Pentax K10D for a couple of years before swapping allegiances to Nikon and the D200 camera.
Since then I have moved onto full frame with the wonderful Nikon D3s and now the D3x. I use Nikon because I had to move up in equipment and it looked like Pentax were never going to enter the full frame market which really is essential for Landscape photography. I chose Nikon over Canon and there was never a reason why - I had to choose one or the other and I just chose Nikon and I don't get into debates over which is best as I think they mirror one another anyway.
Michael Stretton