Baillie Photography

Let me start by introducing myself, my name is Dan Baillie and I live near Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and I am a photographer.

I developed a keen interest in photography when I was fourteen years old, as I write this I am thirty six. I started with 35mm Praktica MTL5B with an excellent 50mm Tessa lens which my Dad gave me for my birthday. I learnt the basics, burned hundreds of rolls of film and eventually upgraded to Canon EOS 5 autofocus bodies when they were launched.

My Father and I ran a photographic company called Sandringham Photographic and took a variety of postcards pictures, shots to be used on calendars and a selection of weddings.

In 2003 I left my home town of Southend-on-Sea in Essex and moved to the wilds of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland.

I swapped film for digital in 2007, when I moved from Canon 35mm SLRs to Nikon. Purely because Nikon were producing slightly better cameras at the time, and also offering better deals. Around this time I also started my own photographic business, Baillie Photography, which at the time concentrated on limited edition prints and stock photography. In 2008 I branched out into wedding and portrait photography, and also began to specialise in taking equine portraits and event photographs.