About Me
I’m David. I’m an avid photographer living in an industrial town in West Yorkshire, UK, living some miles from the most southerly area of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
In my early teens my mum gave me her camera that she stopped using, a red point and shoot film camera. I took photos on and off throughout the years. I then moved bought my first digital camera, made by Ricoh from my local camera shop. After too much use it stopped working and I bought a second one.
In my early twenties I moved up the scale and bought my first DSLR camera, a Canon 450D along with a kit lens, 18-55mm. I spent time getting to know the camera, and bought some other lenses. In 2017 I spent a good few months researching the pros and cons of owning a better, more advanced camera. I took a plunge and bought myself a Canon 5D MKIV, even though I didn’t need a professional camera. I think it was more of a mid-life decision that urged me to buy it. I now have upgraded to mirrorless, staying with Canon.
I was fly fishing when I took this photo. You can just see a chest-mounted GoPro, and the mic.
The website name 'Daelpix Photography' comes from my father who thought the name up after I asked for ideas on what to call myself on a Wordpress site (which is now long gone). I used the name again when I created this website... The word 'dael' comes from Old English (Anglo-Saxon). The new word to replace is 'dale', meaning an open valley. 'Dael' is a synonyn to the word 'valley'.
Heading outside photography and fishing gives me a place of solitude, somewhere I can go to the countryside, to breath in the fresh clean air that surrounds me. A place where I can think. A place I can get away from the ‘real world’, forgetting my troubles. Somewhere I can step into nature and tune into the unknown world that is changing around us every second of each day.