Harold Lambourn on Fstoppers

My Name is Harold V Lambourn, Harry For Short, and a senior citizen. I come from a town called Reading in Berkshire, about 35 miles west of London. Ive been doing photography for around 37 years, 27 of them professionally.

My last four years in the British Forces I became a military Photographer. Left the services in 1979 and joined a company called Mid-West-Movies, an Industrial and Commercial Advertising and filming company, this is where you use larger format cameras like the 5x4 Technical Plate Camera, and the 6x6 / 6x7 Roll Film Cameras.

Then in 1981 I got itchy feet and went out to the Middle East Doha-Qatar as a photojournalist for an English and Arabic newspaper, Gulf Times and Arrayah. This is where I Worked for 18 Years and had a great time. I came back to the UK in December 1999. Once back in the UK I could not get a job back in photography. I ended up working a s a team leader in facilities at a hospital in Reading. and it was not until 2002 that I moved over to digital.