About Me

I’m David. I’m an avid photographer living in an industrial town in West Yorkshire, UK, living some miles from the stunning Yorkshire Dales National Park. I suffer from venous foot ulcers that come and go every year. I might be free of them one year, but I might be suffering from them the next. My life isn’t sunshine and rainbows. I can assure you that when I’m free of them I will be out with my camera walking or fishing.

In my early teens my mum gave me her camera that she stopped using, a red point and shoot film camera. I took photos on and off throughout the years. I then moved bought my first digital camera, made by Ricoh from my local camera shop. After too much use it stopped working and I bought a second one.

In my early twenties I moved up the scale and bought my first DSLR camera, a Canon 450D along with a kit lens, 18-55mm. I spent time getting to know the camera, and bought some other lenses. In 2017 I spent a good few months researching the pros and cons of owning a better, more advanced camera. I took a plunge and bought myself a Canon 5D MKIV, even though I didn’t need a professional camera. I think it was more of a mid-life decision that urged me to buy it. I now have upgraded to mirrorless, staying with Canon.

Heading outside photography and fishing gives me a place of solitude, somewhere I can go to the countryside, to breath in the fresh clean air that surrounds me. A place where I can think. A place I can get away from the ‘real world’, forgetting all my troubles. Somewhere I can step into nature and tune into the unknown world that is changing around us every second of each day.

In the middle of 2024 I bought an ipad and have taken up digital art. I’m using a canvas size of 12x12” for birds and 8x4” for landscapes. I may decide to sell prints of them in the future when I have a larger selection if anybody takes an interest in them.

Although I take photographs, angling was my first interest I took up when I was just 8 years old. You can read about where it all began via my blog here. In 2022 I created a Youtube channel and I now produce fishing videos. Link to my Youtube channel is here.

The website name 'Daelpix Photography' comes from my father who thought the name up after I asked for ideas on what to call myself on a Wordpress site (which is now long gone). I used the name again when I created this website... The word 'dael' comes from Old English (Anglo-Saxon). The new word to replace is 'dale', meaning an open valley. 'Dael' is a synonyn to the word 'valley'.