Photography was an interest that I appear to have inherited from my father, who did 9.5mm cine.  All my images however are still photographs.

My first camera cost me five shillings and only two negatives have survived - maybe the only ones that came out !  But I progressed to 35 mm., 120 roll film cameras and more recently digital when I realised that the best way of getting the sort of images that I required was to take them myself.

Argonaut  G-ALHC being dismantled for spares at Redhill in 1965.

Constellation G-AHEJ being scrapped at Biggin Hill.

Prentices being scrapped at Southend.

    B-17 being scrapped at Biggin Hill following filming " the War Lover".

ATEL Carvair EI-AMP at Lusgate.

Spartan Air Services Dakota  CF-ICU at Gatwick.

I now have in excess of 30,000 negatives, mostly of light aircraft and warbirds with a few airliners of types that interest me.  I have a selection of agricultural aircraft, including some from Australia and New Zealand and probably the worlds largest collection of Chipmunk  images.

over the years I have used 35mm, 2¼ square and 645 formats for my pictures and I now tend to use 35mm for slides and colour prints with 645 being reserved for black and white and some colour transparencies, with the odd digital shot thrown in for good measure.

David Almey flying his Acrosport during a sortie from Fenland.