Rich_A
TPF Noob!
- Joined
- Aug 21, 2023
- Messages
- 7
- Reaction score
- 2
- Location
- Hopewell, NJ
- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos NOT OK to edit
Hello from New Jersey. It’s a heavily guarded secret that most of NJ is gorgeous. It’s not called the garden state for nothin’! While I joined some time ago, I’m just getting around to introducing myself. I’ve been wandering through this world with one camera or another since I was a teen. Ended up at the University or New Mexico School of Fine Art where I was fortunate to study under the likes of Beaumont Newhall, Tom Barrow and Betty Hahn when Van Deren Coke chaired the department. What a fantastic education in the fine art of photography. I wasn’t aware at the time that making a living in the Fine Art world meant teaching – not for me. I worked in commercial photo for a while (mainly corporate and freelance photojournalism) then moved on. After many years as a software engineer, I’m back! My primary interest is large and medium format film and I shoot 6x9 cm and some 4x5 (4x5 not so much at the moment). I recently picked up a Voigtlander Bessa II and have a Crown Graphic 4x5 that I’ve set up as a point-n-shoot. I also have an interest in non-silver and historic processes. I have however, crossed over to the digital world and also shoot with a Nikon D600 and Fujifilm X-Pro2, actually much more than film, as the cost is getting prohibitive. It’s great to be joining an active international community of folks still solidly behind Cartier-Bresson’s ‘decisive moment’.