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These photographs were taken using a Canon Digital IXUS 75, which is one of the earlier digital cameras I purchased. It is a dinosaur compared to the digital compact cameras available today, but it has its own personality. I generally use it as a visual notebook these days. After using film for so long, colour for professional work and monochrome for personal work, and having tried out some early digital SLR cameras and found them wanting, I finally bit the bullet and got on board the digital train. Canon finally brought out a full frame digital SLR , which although expensive did actually deliver the goods. The reasons for using digital as opposed to analogue cameras are manifold, too complicated to go into here. The technology is that good, although film still has the edge from an aesthetic point of view. Anyways the point of this is that since mainly using digital capture in the last few years, I have noticed that I am shooting more and more frames in colour, which is the opposite of the way when I was shooting film. Before I used to pre-visualise, strip the scene of all colour value, see things in the zone system. Now I find that I am starting to explore colour more and more. I still prefer monochrome of course, and if shooting will use monochrome film if that’s what I’m after, still don’t think converting colour files to black & white is where it’s at. So these shots are a sort of personal exploration of colour and early digital capture technology.