About
My father was a photographer. My grandmother was a photographer. My great-grandfather was a photographer and photo engraver. I grew up looking at all their photographs, fascinated by the view into the past they afforded me. That fascination persists.
My first photograph was made in second grade with a pinhole camera constructed from a Campbell’s soup can. I’m sure I still have that photo in a box somewhere. My first camera (that wasn’t some beat-up hand-me-down) was a disc camera and I exposed as much film as I could get my mother to buy. I still have those photos in a box somewhere. I briefly had a cheap 35mm point-and-shoot camera that I bought to take on a trip to Poland in 2003. I think it produced worse images than that disc camera, and there in a box somewhere too. You get the idea.
I no longer shoot film.
Skipping ahead, I now use a Sony a77ii, mainly because it has a flippy screen that comes in handy when I photograph laying on the ground. I have some lenses, and a tripod (for when I’m standing). Oh, and filters too, and a backpack to put it all in.
But photography is not my main creative outlet, that is, not the thing that makes me feel the most creative. That would be WRITING. Photography, more often than not, feels more like capturing someone else’s creation. Photography INSPIRES me to CREATE, which leads to many words scribbled on the backs of envelopes, some of which make it into my blog.