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Welcome to the website of Steve Roberts ARPS, hiding behind the name of Walkham Photography, which seemed like a good idea at the time of starting to construct this website! For any tax inspectors reading this, there's no danger of me ever making a profit and if I get my money back on any photography I undertake, well that's a bonus. Usually it ends up costing me money but fortunately I don't have to make a living from it!

My main interests are related to industrial archaeology in general and mining in particular. In the West of England there is a wealth of material to photograph - the remains of the region's tin and copper mines are well known, but there are also the remnants of slate, granite, china clay and limestone quarrying as well as the associated industries of gunpowder manufacture, foundry work and so on.

My work is entirely analogue/ wet darkroom/silver-based or however you'd prefer to describe something that doesn't involve a digital camera or a computer (at least until it comes to putting it on here!) Yes - some of us do still use long strips of plastic with light-sensitive chemicals suspended in a gelatine coating and we enjoy the smell of fixer lingering on our fingers for a day after a darkroom session!