So, here's my story......
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| Brownie Hawkeye |
My mother warned me when I was in the seventh grade that photography was an expensive hobby. One of my older siblings got into it in high school and it looked like fun! That was around 1964. She was right. Since that time, I've had numerous cameras... including those shown here, some "Instamatitics", some instant print (Polaroid & Kodak), automatic "point & shoot", digital SLRs, owned two different One Hour Photo centers, and managed some for large regional and multinational stores. I even had claim to
World Fame!
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| Argus C3 - yard sale treasure |
Over the course of more than a half century of personal involvement in the world of photography, I have traveled the world from within the walls of my photo labs, photographed births, deaths and nearly everything in between. I took a break from actively working in the imaging world and must confess that I was truly devastated when taking a roll of film into a local branch of a company for whom I had set up two different and busy labs, only to be to told they no longer offered on-site film processing! I had a rather expensive Nikon 35mm SLR film camera with some lenses that became museum pieces! I had now lived through the birth and death of an entire industry!
Eventually I acquired a nice Canon Rebel EOS DSLR camera with a couple of lenses. Mostly today I have found that my iPhone accomplishes as much as my DSLR camera and is always with me! It seems that my skills in seeing with the eye of a photographer...composition techniques, exposure and lighting, action, etc. still come into play.
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| Mamiya Secor TLR |
On previous occasions, I have enjoyed teaching Basic Consumer Photography courses through local community education programs at Park & Recreation departments in Nevada and at a small college in Utah. So, herein I am stepping into a new adventure....to learn details and techniques of various Smartphone cameras...not just the iPhone, and redesign the course I used to teach for 2017 and beyond. Come what may, it will be an exciting adventure, and perhaps a profitable one!
I will never coach my children to avoid pursuing their dreams based on price! If the desire is burning within them, they will find the way! So, watch for the launch of my new project, beginning with a new blog...
SMARTPHONE PHOTO INSTITUTE
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| Minolta SRT 101 -my first NEW camera |
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| iPhone 5s here's to the future of Imaging! |
