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I started making panoramic pictures while working as a youth worker in York. I produced this picture for the front cover of an annual report, and it received so much attention that I decided to have a go at doing some more. Over a few months I bought some equipment and learned as much as I could about photography, printing, papers and inks. I've now moved into other types of photography too, using sites like the excellent Photobox as well as this one. Some of my other work can be seen at www.photoboxgallery.com/ewan. I still fit all of this in at the same time as being a part-time graphic designer, youth worker, online support worker and tour guide. For those who are interested in this type of thing: My first four pictures were photographed with a Ricoh Caplio R1v digital camera - a lovely compact camera with an unusually wide-angle lens and a very cool on/off switch. I've now progressed to a Nikon D40, my first ever SLR camera and more marvellous than I can describe, with an 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6 GII ED lens. One day I hope to know what all that means. For my outdoor pictures I use a Cokin ND graduated filter, and a Manfrotto Modo Digi tripod. I started off editing the pictures using Adobe PhotoDeluxe, then Photoshop Elements on a PC, and I'm now on a mixture of Photoshop Elements 4 and Gimpshop (not as obscene as it sounds), both for the Mac. The pictures are saved as uncompressed bitmaps (usually around 120MB each) and printed using QImage. I print using an Epson 6-colour printer onto Red River 47lb Premium Matte paper, which I selected after weeks of research for its combination of big sizes, fantastic and artistic-looking results and long-lasting prints. All text, titles and images are (c) 2005 - 2007 by Ewan Main. Pictures of the interior of York Minster are (c) Dean and Chapter of York, reproduced by kind permission (see the York Minster page for more details). This site was generally masterminded by Spanners of TheDaddy.org - have a look at one of his other works of art!

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