Martin Bailey is a British nature photographer living in Japan. If that doesn’t get you interested in this interview, nothing will! Martin is also a member of the Outdoor Photo Gear Review Board. This article contains excerpts from Martin's interview by Scott Bourne. 1 – Scott: Please tell me how and when you got into photography. [Martin Bailey] My induction into photography was a long process. My earliest photographic experience was with a Polaroid camera that Dad bought when I was around 7 or 8 years old. It disappeared from our house pretty quickly though when he realized how expensive the film was. I played with my friend’s Dad’s camera sometimes, and he let me shoot the odd frame, which was a real kick. I then had a number of basically plastic toy cameras over the years, which I enjoyed shooting with, but we didn’t have a lot of money, and so the developing costs held me back a lot. In my teens I remember asking my Mum if I could paint our bathroom black and find some way of sealing up the windows when necessary so that I could make my own darkroom. You can imagine that this conversation didn’t progress very far.