I am an Architect, still practising in London. Happily married with 3 (now grown up) children and two grandsons.

My passion for photography started from my early student years in the early 70's, I was fortunate to have my own very compact darkroom, in a tiny shed (1.2m x 1.5m) at the back of my parents' home where I developed and printed mono and later colour from slides with Cibachrome and from negative film.

General photography and creative developing took a back seat with marriage, family and work committments. It was not until the new digital age when my interest in photography was rekindled. Now I don't feel so guilty sitting in front of a PC and processing with Lightroom. The family still gets neglected but now they are older they see this as a blessing. :-))

I apologise in advance to all my friends and followers that my daily schedule does not allow me more than the odd hour or so a day to manage my flickr activities and I don't have the time to comment on your images as much as I would like. But I take a lot of inspiration from studying your photographs and in turn I try to improve my style.

As an Architect I learned to welcome constructive criticism and so I urge you to offer suggestions where you feel one or more of my photos could be improved, if you prefer to keep it private, send me a flickr email and we can have a chat.

Occasionally I go through my list of followers and clear any inactive links. If I have accidentally deleted any by mistake I apologise and I will reinstate if you let me know.

As a rule I will not follow an invite from a person following several and I mean several thousands or from any one who has not indicated in some way that he/she has actually seen any of my images.

Camera history:

Praktica LLC (from 1971, gifted to my brother with all lenses)

Asahi Pentax KX(BC), bought 02/07/1976 for £132.75 & f1.8/55mm for £41.85 (later gifted to a friend with all lenses)

Nikon F2A (from 1978, displayed with pride in a glass cabinet)

Nikon d7000 (from 2012, later gifted to my son with all lenses)

Nikon d800e (from 2014, I still use it for my photography)

Nikon d850 (from 2020, gifted in 2023 to my eldest son with the holy trinity of my lenses)

Nikon z7 (from 2020, regretfully disposed of for the z9)

Nikon z9 (from 2023, still learning how to use it and so glad I made the switch to mirrorless and to the z9 in particular)

You can view my photos on this link:

As uploaded:

www.flickriver.com/photos/georgeplakides/

By popularity:

www.flickriver.com/photos/georgeplakides/popular-interest...