About Me
- Brett Payne
- Tauranga, New Zealand
- Originally trained and worked as a geologist, I now work as a museum professional. My passion is old photographs, the photographers who took them, the equipment and technologies they used, the people and scenes in the photos, and the stories behind them. http://photo-sleuth.blogspot.com/ I'm also an avid hiker and naturalist, and have walked four Caminos in northern Spain ... so far
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Links to my favourite photo-related sites
- Derbyshire Photographers, by Brett Payne
- Alfred Seaman and the PCUK
- Photographers of GB & Ireland 1840-1940, by Ron Cosens
- Real Photo Postcard Stamp Boxes, by Ron Playle
- Directory of London Photographers 1841-1908, by Michael Pritchard
- Photographic History & Collecting, by Marcel Safier
- Brighton Photographers 1841-1910, by David Simkin
- Sussex PhotoHistory, by David Simkin
- EdinPhoto, by Peter Stubbs
- Photo Detective Blog, by Maureen Taylor
- Victorian & Edwardian Photographs, by Roger Vaughan
- Date an Old Photograph, by Roger Vaughan
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