Findlay Rankin

My interest in photography began when I was about 14 and my parents bought a Kodak box camera that took 620 roll film. I remember having a lot of fun and failures with that camera.

For my 21st birthday, I was given my first "serious" camera, a Zenit 35mm SLR.

The fun I had with that camera was immeasurable and within a few years was awarded a Licentiateship of the Royal Photographic Society.

Over the years, I have been involved in many different types of photography, including Social, Commercial, Wedding and Press. For 3 years I was the Sergeant in charge of the Photographic section of Strathclyde Police Crime Scene Management, a Department with an interesting diversity of roles and a demanding need for accuracy and high standards.

On the social side, I'm a registered Photographic judge with the Scottish Photographic Federation (SPF), The Glasgow and District Photographic Union (GDPU) and the Ayrshire Interclub Alliance.

Now retired from the Police, I'm still involved the Social and Wedding Photography and currently sell Travel and Social images through six Agencies from Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, New York, London to California. From the feedback I get, my images have appeared in publications in Britain, USA, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, South America and South Africa.