::: About the Photographer :::

Alan Rossiter was born in 1969 and lived in or around Wexford, Ireland all of his life. Photography was never really an interest until a school teacher, Mr Griffin gave us in turn, a loan of a twin lens reflex camera to take a photograph of our home area. This first image was so good I didn't recognise it when it was first printed!

Photographs from a compact film camera on holidays still knock around at home but photography only really showed it's potential as a true pastime at the age of 18 with the purchase of the first SLR, a Nikon. Depth of Field was fascinating and a few rolls during the summer months were interesting, but difficult with a camera that was not understood. The purchase of the "replacement for still cameras", or a video camera, put pay to a short lived hobby but it never really went away.

Many years of competitive cycling and marriage with the resulting 3 sons all took more time and resources until late 2006 when a second hand Minolta x-500 came on the market and the bug bit. This was shortly followed by a DSLR, a SonyA100 with the accompanying range of lenses. An upgrade to a Sony A700 in October 2007 and the obsession that you can view the results of was born.

Alan currently works as a company buyer in Wexford town and lives with his wife Cathy, sons Dean, Eoin & Stuart.

::: Achievements :::

"Achievements can be measured as anything from the first step, to walking on the moon. Mine lie somewhere in between"

July 2007 ~ 2nd place in the annual Kilmore Quay Seafood Festival/ Wexford Camera Club exhibition.

July 2007 ~ 1st B&W image and 2nd Colour image in the "Castlebridge Show" photographic competition.

September 2007 ~ Publication in the "Hotshots" section of the Digital Camera Magazine

January 2008 ~ 1st place in the projected image section of the annual Irish Photographic Federation finals of the printed and projected image competition.

March 2008 ~ 2nd runner up in the RTE Weather photographic competition. The image was periodically shown as a backdrop to the RTE national television weather forecast for Spring.

May 2008 ~ Selection of image to the 2009 ISPCA calendar

July 2008 ~ Winner of the June Photo of the Month competition on Photography Ireland

Autumn 2008 ~ Finalist in the RTE Weather photographic competition - Autumn Section including publication over the Christmas and New Year period almost constantly.

November 2008 ~ Certificate for 2nd place in B&W projected images in the SACC Printed and Projected Images finals.

Winter 2008 ~ Finalist in the RTE Weather photographic competition - Winter section.

2008 ~ Spring runner up image appeared in the March page of the 2009 RTE calendar which was distributed nationwide.