[Margaret Pilkington]

I used to think that manipulating images was 'cheating' making a picture into something it wasn't.
But I do enjoy making a picture different to the original.
It takes nothing at all from the beauty or validity of that picture.....it just creates something which is based on the original.....and my creation is going to be original to me because it is the way only I would create it.

My dear old dad was a photographer of the old school, but he did some manipulating of his own.....he superimposed images onto different backgrounds....he coloured photo's when there were only monochrome pictures.
I often wonder what he would make of digital photography and the editing that is now possible.