About Me

I am Ian Nellist a professional photographer who is passionate about travelling as well as photography. I got the travel bug at the age of 5 being fascinated by a children’s encyclopaedia cartoon pictures of Switzerland. I finally got to Switzerland at the age of 9 armed with a Agfa Silette-LK camera, my first real camera, well at least a step up from my parent's Kodak Brownie, I still have it somewhere at the bottom of the cupboard.

Since then I have travelled extensively in Europe plus parts of Africa, South America, India and Hong Kong. My favourites are Macchu Picchu and the whole area around Cusco. The Taj Mahal and Agra fort, Angel Falls in Venezuela and any safari in Africa.

I will always have fond memories of spending a birthday visiting the Amber fort in Rajasthan, India on elephant back, the only way to travel.

My last big trip was toTimbuktu in Mali in November of 2006. It was a fabulous trip, not simply the time spent in Timbuktu, but the journey to and from that fabled city, and in particular the ferry crossing of the Niger river. The trips to the Monday market in Djenne and the Dogon mask dance were also excellent parts of the trip.

My cameras have changed over the years, I graduated to Olympus SLRs in the late 1970’s before transferring my allegiances to Canon in the mid 1980’s after my Olympus kit got stolen. I also have a couple of Bronica ETRSiI's medium format cameras.

However in the last few years I have been increasingly using digital cameras.The speed of working and the cost being big factors. But as the quality of digital cameras has improved more and more customers only want a digital output. Consequently over the last four years I have used less and less film and haven't shot a roll of film for the last two years. At the moment I use a Canon EOS1 mark 2 as well as a CanonD60 and a D10.

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