1.

This Evening

• I'll be going quickly through lots of photos this evening, not be stopping for long on any photo.

• The intention is just to show the sort of work that I've been doing.

• I've added the talk to my EdinPhoto web site, so you can look again at any of the photos there.

  EdinPhoto Web Site My web site www.edinphoto.org.uk includes photos and recollections of Edinburgh. Start typing Edinphoto or Peter Stubbs into Google. The EdinPhoto site is non-commercial.  I don't sell any of my photos, but people sometimes ask if they can use them.  I usually agree.

   

2.

Up to 1990s

• I used to enter my photos in competitions, both EPS and External.

• Competitions motivated me to take photos.  The feedback was helpful.

• I found the Colour Group Theme Competitions to be a good challenge.

• I enjoyed seeing how others had interpreted the same theme.

• Maybe I'll enter competitions again, but ...

3.

Since 1990s

Now, my main reasons for taking photos are:

• to capture some images that I hope will be interesting to look back on in the future.
  
  Edinburgh is constantly changing.  I'm surprised just how quickly it changes and how many of the photos that I've taken, even quite recently, could not be repeated today.

• to capture images that I think might be of interest to people viewing EdinPhoto web site, now and in the future.

4.

Web Sites, Papers, Magazines, Christmas Cards, ...

Web Sites, Papers and Magazines

As well as adding my photos to the EdinPhoto web site - when I have found the time to do that - and occasionally sending photos for publication in the Edinburgh Evening News Picture Gallery feature, I've received emails from many people around the world asking if they can use my images for different purposes.

I've often been surprised by where the requests have come from:

-  a group of Australian Electricity Pylon enthusiasts interested in my photo of a Pylon in the mountains in Queensland

-  a group of Ukrainian Bus Shelter enthusiasts, interested in some of my photos of Edinburgh bus shelters.

-  Several editors of specialist magazines that I never knew existed.

Here are a few of the places where others have made use of my photos:

Others have used some of my photos as a basis for a painting, a tapestry, on a CD cover, a poster, a notice board, packaging for coffee, a First Day Cover, in exhibitions, lectures, religious services, other web sites, archives, family history collections and in several  books.