First Entry

This is my first entry and, since it's for a class, I'll leave my personal comments and usual rantings to myself. I was a complete boob today and left all my handouts on the table in the lab, so without my list of entry items to refer to, I'll just say a few words about myself. I am a non-traditional student returning to school after spending some time in the big, bad world. I graduated from HS in 1977 and attended one year at Idaho State where, I studied theater. My big dream was to be an actor. It didn't take me long to figure out that it doesn't really matter how much education you have, to get work as an actor you still have to audition. If you can do the role, you've got the job. So, when I ran out of money for school, I joined the Air Force. I spent 21 years on active duty and retired in January of 2003. I've traveled around the world and taken 1000s of photographs, mostly with 35mm slide film. I've just recently replaced all my 35mm film gear with a Nikon D200. I think I'm finished with 35mm film. But I do have a 4X5 press camera (A Crown Graphic made in 1947) which I use for landscapes mostly.

This one is Sahallie Falls, just up the road from Springfield. I took this last winter with my 4X5 on Velvia 100F and then scanned it with an Epson V700 film scanner at 1600 dpi.

Anyway, this is the kind of stuff I prefer to do, but I'm easily distracted by shiny things so my camera seems to point wherever I see something I think is interesting. Working with the 4X5 and working with the D200 are two entirely different things. It's like the difference between a sports car and a truck.