Whilst searching for a file on my computer I came across a folder of images taken on a college trip to Cairo ten years ago. I hadn't seen the images for years and had forgotten about them since a friend (who is an Egyptologist) had asked me for some prints and I had scanned a few images for output - hence the border.
These images were not on my previous site and have never really seen the light of day (digitally speaking) so I thought it was a nice opportunity to post them here. Coming across the images I had a hunt and found all the original prints that I had kept in a little display book (from Muji), in the back of it are odd scraps/tickets/cards aswell as a few pictures - not taken by myself - of those who were on the trip. With everything being digital these days it was so nice to come across a book of prints and found/borrowed/stolen souvenirs, whenever I'm away traveling I always seem to keep hold of such items and it's shame to not display them in some way.
Going over the images has got me thinking about how it was to shoot then, I was shooting on film with a Pentax ME Super (you can see it round my neck in one of the small photos) with one prime lens, no zoom, no autofocus. Nowadays I'm out shooting with two camera bodies with a 24-105 and 70-200 lens and although I have a prime 50mm it very rarely gets used. Zooms are great when you are in a situation when you can't move but I've always felt that relying on the lens to get you closer takes a certain something away from the act of taking photographs. Plus the size and weight of these lenses can mean you're not as mobile or discreet as you would be with a small prime lenses. So coming across these images has really given me a reminder to use prime lenses more, I may even look into getting a focusing screen for my bodies to have the option of manual focussing to return to keeping things really simple - as they were in those days.
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