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In 1960, when I brought home my first colour slides in 35mm format, my father said that one would "never get anything worthwhile off those ridiculous little frames", and that "It's not really photography, of course, those pretty colours". No colour emulsion at that stage would resolve anything like what a good 35mm lens would put on it. Little did Daddy know how emulsions would nowadays reach equilibrium with lenses, or that modern scanning would enable us to make big prints even from faded, grainy 35mm Agfachromes nearly 50 years old. The resolution in my old originals is not high, but the conception was often good, even 'painterly'. I have tended to photograph what I should paint if I were a painter. I think of my scenic shots as a way to remind myself of what it felt like to stand in places where I shall never stand again. They may perhaps enable others to feel that they can just walk through the frame into these same places.