About Me

Tim Pearson

Photographer, Artist, Printer

When I was 7 or 8 years old, I got a camera for Christmas, a Coronet 44 Mark II – 127 Roll Film Camera. My dad always had a camera and now I could take photos just like my dad. I vividly remember taking my first photo out of my bedroom window, a photo of the three gasholders at the Mitcham gasworks, I Don’t remember what else I took on that roll, but I will discover them again as I have them somewhere.

I moved up to a Zenith when I was about 13 and had a little income, I was interested in motorcycles by then and used to travel down to Brands Hatch to see the racing there, the Transatlantic races were a favourite, Barry Sheene, Kenny Roberts, Ron Haslam and many more.

When I was in my 20`s I bought an Olympus OM10 and a couple of lenses, but my interests were elsewhere and I rarely took photos until I moved to Marbella.

In the 90`s I entered into the world of computing and found a love for a program called Painter, I created many works and also loved fractal design, printing many. Having previously worked for a screen printer, my love of seeing things in print rather than on a computer screen has inspired me no end.

In 2004 while living in Marbella, I saved up and went to Gibraltar to get a deal on a Fuji FinePix S7000, the best I could afford at the time. What a lovely camera that was, I loved the colour it produced and took it everywhere I was really into Panoramic photos at the time and the Fuji suited it well. A friend of mine was looking for someone to take photos in a club he was working at and I said why not!! For the next year I was the Photographer for “Plato 68” in Estepona, which was quite a large club with a 95% Spanish clientele. I took 50,000 photos that year, had my photos on billboards, buses and much more. I enjoyed every minute of it.

After moving back to the UK in 2014 to care for my parents, I bought a Sony A6000 and fell in love with the Sony System, bought some lenses and have learned many aspects of photography that I had not even realised existed. I since moved up to a full frame Sony and have not looked back, collecting a few full frame bodies and lenses along the way. I have done so much training online, knowing that I will have to go back to work when my caring for Mum and Dad was over. And here I am, like a grenade with the pin pulled out, the next chapter is here.