I started with photography many, many moons ago. Somewhere late seventies it must have been. Mainly shooting pix at rockconcerts. At the time, ofcourse, with an analog camera. I used to have a Praktica LTL3, later replaced by it's follow-up MTL3. In those days you could take your photo camera without problems to any concert. Also for the big name acts. That changed some time during the mid-eighties I think when some promoters got bigger and started to make their own rules. At that time I lost interest and left the camera home when visiting concerts. I think my best effort was at the 1982 show of Rainbow featuring guitar ace Ritchie Blackmore in Ahoy, Rotterdam. Some of these pics got published in the book titled "Rainbow Rising - The Story Of Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow" by Roy Davies. Also some pics from Rainbow in Rotterdam 1981 and Bristol 1983 shows I shot made it to this book. In total 8 of my photos were used for publication. The first print, now sold out, was in 2002. A second print supposed to have come out in February 2007. At the start of this century digital camera's slowly took over the world of photography and my interest was caught again after a long time of hardly doing anything in this area. I started in 2001 with a Kodak DC 240. Only 1,3 MP and at that time more expensive than a DSLR today. Nice toy. Within a year I switced to an Olympus C2100UZ, a much better camera, although only 2,1 MP it had 10x zoom with stabilization. After that I also had a Canon Powershot G3 (nice, but a bit limited on the zoom), Sony TSC-T7 (very small like a creditcard, 5 MP but it delivered disappointing pics) and a Panasonic DMC-FZ5. I entered a competition by the Metro newspaper early this year (that's 2006) with one of the pics I shot with the Oly C2100 and won a Nikon D50 DSLR. So I picked up the ol' habbit because with the Nikon D50 it's good fun again..... In the mean time the D50 got replaced by a D80. That one has now also been replaced by a D300. A second D300 got added. The first D300 has been replaced by a D700.... Frans van Arkel Rainbow Eyes Photography all the lights have died somehow or were they ever there.... All the pictures on this website may not be copied, modified, published or displayed anywhere else without the permission of the owner, Frans van Arkel. All rights reserved. If you wanna use any of my photos, then please contact me