Laurence Skilton Photography

My father introduced me to photography in my early years and an aunt gave me a camera taking 120 films. Those were years in which the images fascinated me and I took pictures of all sorts of things from leaves on trees our cat. Then on the Eastern Shore of Canada in my teenage years, I took to developing and printing photographs for the local drug store. I dread to think what people thought of the quality of my work. I developed the films in the bathroom, used a homemade enlarger with a camera lens and washed the prints in the stream running through the property. I used a cage of chicken wire for the washing and large vinegar bottles filled with hot water for the glazing. That was my early introduction to the photographic process and soon I was given a second-hand range finder camera with an f2.8 lens. I thought that had made it, and advertised through the drug store to do photographs for people. Well, I moved on from those early days, but much of my experience was with second-...

Black and white and monochrome Black and white has a certain way of presenting the world.  I started with film in my teenage years and continued throughout the years rebuilding my darkroom every time we moved and then teaching photography I had the real stuff to play with

 Launceston Tasmania is a small city of just over 84 thousand in an island state of half a million people.

 This blog will display photographs of Tasmania and New Zealand, taken off the beaten track in many cases. These images are available to you upon request to me by email and we can discuss their use and appropriate cost. Please remember that all images are copyright and I do my best to respect any copyright symbols or images in the pictures in this portfolio. Tasmania Life on Ben Lomond