I Love Photography
I blame my dad for that. My dad has been taking great pictures since the 1950s. He started with a Kodak Retna IIa 35mm if anyone can remember that. My first picture was taken with that camera, a picture of my dad.
My first camera was a Kodak 126 with those plastic film magazines. Since my dad developed all our film, it was “fun” for him to open the film magazine up; plastic shrapnel was all over the place. But I first learned how to develop film at that time. It is also the time I learned a whole bunch of new adjectives the nuns never taught me.
I made the move to digital in 1996 with a little Casio digital camera. I also started to host web sites at that time. It was a great place to post pictures. Over the next several years, I purchased a couple of Sony digital cameras, then I purchased my first DSLR when the Nikon D100 came out.
My wife has always been very interested in wildlife, one of the MANY things that I find attractive about her. She learned from her dad who has his falcon license, and has done a great job in teaching her about nature. Armed with her knowledge of nature and my interest in photography, we have spent a lot of our time taking pictures of the outdoors. This is reflected in my photos on this site.
My Home, My Work
We had a condo on the 54th floor in Chicago, which was great for photographing our favorite city. Now that we are married, we left our world in the sky for a house in the suburbs. We have a wooded acre right in the middle of a forrest, yet only 20 miles from Chicago. This has been great for photography!
My profession is computers. I manage several Information Technology sections at work; E-mail, voice communication, storage area networks, and others. But I love working with images. I think there are two types of “computer people”: engineers and artists. I have made a living as an IT engineer but want to be an IT artist. Maybe some day.
Other Things Too
I do have interests other than photography, outdoors, and computers. While those go well together, I also love sports. Hockey, baseball, and (American) football are favorite pastimes of mine. While I find myself playing much less than I did when I was younger, I still spend a lot (maybe too much) time as a spectator.
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