Thursday, March 5, 2009

The Beginning

I've been shooting pictures for as long as I can remember. 

Maybe I got it from my dad. He always had his manual rangefinder camera and always shot slide film. He'd spend days and weeks getting his slides together from a trip, sorting them on a light table and then, carefully placing them in a slide tray (upside down and backwards, I think). Then, on a special night, after it got dark, he'd set up his slide projector, pop open our 6' screen, turn off all the lights and we'd look at all the photos he'd taken from one of our family vacations, each slide punctuated by the "kerchunk" sound of the slide carousel moving from one slide to the next. 

I guess you could say things have changed a little since then.