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My enjoyment of photography began when I was bought a point & shoot Kodak Instamatic camera by my Aunt and Uncle. I was about 8 years old I should think, and can clearly remember wanting to take pictures of everything and anything, so fascinated was I by the way you could capture a moment forever… Full details of what I am currently shooting with can be found in the “equipment” section.

I primarily take photos for my own enjoyment – my memory is dreadful therefore what better way of preserving events? However, my photos now also appear on the Ipswich Speedway Website and in their programme, as well as several speedway riders websites. Should you wish to make use of any of the images found on this site please contact me first for permission. 

It is so easy to take photographs these days – from the tiniest of key ring sized digital cameras, disposable cameras, through to the mobile phones with their integral cameras which are becoming ever higher quality, anyone can have a camera with them with the minimum of inconvenience and cost. To an extent the old adage of “The camera never lies” is becoming less true – with digital images it is easy to manipulate what is shown. People or items can be removed, or indeed added. Taken a family photo but Uncle Bill arrived later? No problem – add him onto the end behind Auntie Maud. Wedding photo with the bride’s hair over her face? Easy – retouch to show a perfect ‘do. This is all well and good, but in my opinion this comes close to changing history. Who hasn’t listened to their Mum reminiscing over her wedding album about how her big day was so windy she could hardly keep her veil on, or how terribly her dress creased in the car on the way to the church? It’s the little imperfections like this that keep memories alive. A photograph should be an image of a moment in time, as it happened, not as you would have liked it to have happened in a perfect world. My photos may sometimes be enhanced for sharpness, or changed to black & white images from colour…..but the things and the people you see in them are largely those things and people which, for whatever reason, appeared in the frame when the shutter released.

Welcome to my site, I hope you enjoy it.

Robyn Parr-Ferris, June 2006.

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