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Stuart Littlewood ARPS
Stuart moved to St Ives from Ironbridge in 1984.
For many years he lived in the Scottish Borders and Dartmoor National Park, and
he’s still a keen hill-walker. He fenced epée and sabre for his university and has
been a long-time supporter of the National Trust and English Heritage.
A fascination with politics began while working in Glasgow and he later
campaigned with the old Liberal Party. In 1993, as a Liberal Democrat, Stuart was
elected County Councillor for St Ives South and served as a member of the
Cambridgeshire Police Authority. He stepped down from active politics in 1997.
A marketing specialist, he has spent his working life in industry.
The magic of photography fired his imagination while at school, and the
introduction of lightweight, easy-to-use single-lens reflexes like the Pentax
Spotmatic in the 1960s opened up an exciting new world. Competitive club
photography with the Photo-Colour Society of South Devon, the Cambridge Camera
Club and St Ives Photographic Club taught him the art and provided the fun. He is
now an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, a distinction awarded for
‘Applied’ photography.
He particularly enjoys action and natural history but regards landscape as the
greatest challenge. The subject of this book - people - is a new departure.
For the technically minded....
On this project Stuart shot most of his pictures with two old 35mm single-lens reflex cameras
- a Pentax MX (his favourite for 22 years) and a Ricoh XR7, which accepts Pentax lenses. The
majority were taken on black&white negative film such as Ilford FP4 Plus and Fuji Neopan
400, but some are derived from colour slides.
In most cases he used a wide f2 35mm a standard f1.8 55mm lens, or a 28~50mm wideangle zoom. The air-to-ground shots were taken with f3.5 150mm and f2.8 120mm telephoto
lenses.
George Dellar used a brace of Canon EOS600’s and colour negative film, James Bunn a Canon
EOS 500 and EOS620 shooting colour slides, while Leszek Gawin worked with a Nikon 801
and F100 using Kodak T-Max black&white film.
Back cover
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/Pentax MEF
Negatives and slides were digitally scanned by CLE-Print. The digital images, together with
text supplied in MS Word, were then laid out for each page by John Souter, who generously
contributed his graphic art skills in the design and production of this book.
