Way more than you ever wanted to know about jadin...

[jadin]

1. St. Mary's. (everyone expects you to answer what city. Someone answered with what hospital one time, and it's stuck with me ever since.) which is in duluth..

 

[JonMikal]

are you trying for 1000 before midnight tonight?

 

[jadin]

2. How long have you been shooting pictures?

A history. I'm really not sure. First time I remember taking photos was on vacation when I was about 6 or 7. When we got the photos back I remember my mom saying the developer (some clerk at walgreens ) had told her the photographer was very good. And that was that. Jump forward to post-graduation. A friend of mine bought a camera, and me and a buddy took it out for a spin if you will. This excursion was the first time I remember thinking, "I like photography!". But not having my own camera I didn't do a whole ton with it, but I definately enjoyed it.

A couple years back I bought a canon ae-1 from a friend. I learned how to use the exposure meter, (VERY basically I realize now looking back). Enjoyed it a lot but for the most part didn't have too many keepers. I have a few but there's stuff I would obviously have done different today.

I've always been a digital kid, so when digital started getting common I wanted one. My first camera was a spontaneous ebay purchase. And by spontaneous I mean, oops. I found I really enjoyed bidding on ebay. Not to win an item, but only to make other people pay more. Why I enjoy this? I have no idea. I took advantage of people using the bid proxy. (where you set your max bid and it bids for you.) I could bid, and bid, and bid, and the amount they'd have to pay would get higher and higher, all while they were away from the computer.

Then one day (same day few auctions later), I bid once and found I was the high bidder. With 20 minutes left. Noone else bid. I won! Kharma caught up with me pretty fast on that one.

Fortunately I had a blast with that camera and learned a fair amount.

A year or two later I bought a canon g2. I was not happy with that camera at all. For one thing my understanding of aperture was backwards, so most of my photos turned out on the soft side.

Then finally last year I developed Social Anxiety Disorder, which made it difficult (impossible?) to work. I found myself unemployed for about 9 months. I applied for Social Security benefits, and was approved. They gave a lump sum backpayment for six months. I was able to use that backpayment to buy my current Nikon D1X. When I was talking to the salesman, I explained what camera I came from (the g2) and that I couldn't bear to take pictures with it. He told me he didn't blame me since I was used to the control over the camera with the ae-1, and that'd I'd enjoy the D1X over the g2. He was oh so right.

End history.

 

[jadin]

are you trying for 1000 before midnight tonight?

Didn't really think about that. But, um sure!

 

[jadin]

3. What's your favorite color?

Yellow.

No wait, blue!

AGGGHHH!

(yellow)

 

[JonMikal]

have you ever been to washington dc?

 

[jadin]

4. If you won a million dollars, what would you do?

I would have so much fun! I always dream about doing just really weird things if I had lots of money. Such as go through the drive-thru at a fast-food resturaunt, and everytime they tell you your order change it.

"So, that's 2 cheeseburgers, fries and a Coke?"

"Right. 2 Cheeseburgers, fries, a coke, and 2 vanilla cones."

"Okay, so 2 Cheeseburgers, fries, a coke, and 2 vanilla cones."

"Yeah, make that 4 cheesburgers though."

And spend like half an hour.

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I would outbid everyone on ebay for specific items that I don't even want. Just so that I would have a monopoly!

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I would buy the ugliest crappiest car I could find, and put a racecar engine in it, a manual transmission, basically "pimp" it out. Then drive around making people go "huh?"

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I'd build a miniature house like in that geico commercial, and live in it.

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I could go on for a long time, but basically I'd spend money trying to make people go "huh?"

... oh and buy an island to live on.

 

[Karalee]

If you could visit one country what would it be?

 

[jadin]

5. If you could visit anywhere in the world for one week, free, where would you go?

Just one week? I really don't know. If I'd go anywhere it'd be longer than a week. Where would I go? France maybe, New Zealand, /shrug.

 

[jadin]

6. How many countries have you visited?

Two, united states and canada.

 

[jadin]

7. What is your favorite meal?

Beer.

 

[jadin]

8. Where would you like to retire?

Technically I'm already retired... but I'd be a traveler if I retired. That or an island.

 

[JonMikal]

why are we here?

 

[jadin]

9. What is your current job?

Well, you could say photography. Or maybe webdesign, other than that don't have one.

 

[jadin]

10. What would you like your job to be if not your current?

I'd open a business of some sort. Either selling computer parts, having a LAN center, a gallery. Something along those lines.