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I was introduced to photography by my father, when he let me use his Olympus OM-1 on a family holiday. I fell in love with it, used it as much as I could, read every magazine and book I could find, and was given a Cosina CT1 for my 13th birthday. I had a bunch of friends who all had SLRs in the 1980s, and we spent many hours playing with settings, photography and projects. In 2014, I photographed every member of my family, which took me to the US twice, Denmark, Scotland and Make the Switch Already a FujifilmX Series fan, with previous experience of X-Pro bodies, Patrick Stubbs gets to grips with the all-new X-Pro3... PATRICK STUBBS Patrick shoots family portraits, events and weddings, as well as street photography. ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE sending the films off and eagerly waiting for the results. I started to earn money from photography while working – a few weddings and some published work – but the big change happened when I was working in Africa for the World Wildlife Fund. I got quite a few photography commissions while in Eswatini (Swaziland), so when I came back to the UK in 2004, I decided I would start a full- time photography business. I found I really loved photographing family life and that’s nowmy core work – family portraits, events and weddings, with some commercial and corporate work every now and again. I use Canon 5DMark IVs for my wedding and portrait work, mainly with 24-70mm and 70-200mm lenses. I still love to shoot for myself though, and I enjoy wandering with a camera, doing street
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