After a long hiatus, I have finally gotten around to restoring my father’s website, in the form of a memorial to his work and contributions to the photography and birdwatching communities. With the assistance of Claude Code (AI), and archives on the Wayback Machine, I was able to reconstruct the guestbook entries which I had thought was lost, these are now preserved for posterity on the Tributes page.
While working on re-building his website, I am reminded of the incredible work he’s done, and I hope to preserve his legacy. I am the custodian of his photographic archives, and I am still finding gems in there, and with the advances in processing software and techniques, I hope to have the time to re-process and upscale some of his photos from the Gallery to current standards.
I wish I had taken up photography earlier, and to have learnt more from him while he was alive. Still, I feel his presence every time I go out with a camera, and guiding me when I post-process my own photos. I have a feeling he would be thrilled with my endeavours in astrophotography, which is in a way a spiritual successor to his ‘digiscoping’ technique, whereby I would attach a camera to a telescope to photograph the cosmos.
If you knew my father back in the day, I would love to hear from you. I’m sure there are lots of stories about him that I haven’t heard before! My contact details can be found on my website.