{"id":4865,"date":"2014-10-01T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T11:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:37:25","slug":"octobers-photographer-of-the-month-paul-elcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/photographer-of-the-month\/octobers-photographer-of-the-month-paul-elcock\/","title":{"rendered":"October&#8217;s Photographer of the Month &#8211; Paul Elcock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">What can you tell us about your winning photo?<\/h2>\n<p>I visited a beautiful village in the Yorkshire Dales with my daughter to see local artist Kitty North give a painting demonstration on the village green.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the edge of the green I noticed a mysterious gate in the middle of a high dry stone wall, bordering a small wood. It looked like it hadn\u2019t been opened in years.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I took the photos with my new love, a 1954 vintage Rolleiflex mx-evs using Ilford HP5 Film, which I home develop, then scan the negatives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4870\" title=\"Gate1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Gate1-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" \/><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">How did you get into photography?<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My dad, who was a commercial artist, he loved oil and watercolour painting in his spare time but had little interest in photography. We didn\u2019t even have a camera, yet one day he returned from work with 35mm rangefinder camera and being 15yrs old and into gadgets I purloined it and took it upon myself to take all the family shots and learn how to use it.<\/p>\n<p>I then saved up and bought a 35mm Pentax MX \u00a0SLR of my own.<\/p>\n<p>At university I joined the camera club and had a go in their darkroom with varying success.<\/p>\n<p>Work and young family following university then meant less time to enjoy my hobby.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In 2002 I finally went digital with a Sony Cybershot and treated myself to a Pentax DSLR, enjoying the ease and relative simplicity of capturing a decent image.<\/p>\n<p>I retired from work with ill health in 2013 and despite being in a wheelchair I now have the time to return to my hobby but I also have rediscovered my love of film photography. My dad\u2019s old Ricoh and my 1980 Pentax still work perfectly, supplemented by my new baby; a medium format Rolleiflex that I found in a local antique shop<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4866\" title=\"Elcock 4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Elcock-4-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">What do you enjoy about photography?<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I am currently enjoying the old discipline of film photography. It is more fiddly, time consuming and expensive as you only get 12 frames\/film on the Rolleiflex and with no built in metering there\u2019s a lot of educated guesswork. I have to be much more thoughtful in trying to compose the shot. I\u2019m also developing the negatives myself then scanning to computer to print or save the decent ones.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">True, some of the resolution and sharpness of digital isn\u2019t there but there is something else that grabs my attention and feels more creative.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">People, landscapes, street, especially old urban and country, are my bag, although wheelchair accessibility ( or lack of it!) and my reduced dexterity are my continuing frustrations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4871\" title=\"Elcock 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Elcock-31-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What are your plans for the future?<\/h2>\n<p>Future ideas include trying to marry my attempts at watercolour painting with my black and white photography by hand painting\/colouring my black and white photo prints.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4869\" title=\"Elcock 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pictureframesexpress.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Elcock-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">What do you plan to do with your framing vouchers?<\/h2>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m going to use my framing vouchers to frame a couple of watercolour paintings and some photo prints. 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