I've been lurking around this forum for a few days now and I love it! I want to introduce myself now and tell my story of the moment that the photography bug bit me.
First - my name is Stan, I'm 41 and I live around Boston Massachusetts.
Up until October of this year, photography was not something I had a big interest in. I owned a simple 110 camera for years, but I don't know how I got it and I barely ever used it. A couple of years ago I was on vacation with the family and we decided to buy a digital camera - a Kodak DX4330. Even then I just didn't have any passion for it and just used it to record vacation/birthday/party moments.
In September I got a new Cell phone that had some features that I needed and it happened to come with a built-in camera. I tried it a few times, but generally didn't care about the camera feature.
Then it happened. Last month I was in my car driving around in my home town listening to a book on CD. I have a long commute to work and I have become hooked on listening to audio books to help pass the commute time. So, it's raining a little - just a slight drizzle - and as I pass a field to my right I see a cow standing right up against the wire fence just a couple of feet off the road. I love animals of all kinds and I though "hmmm - this is a good chance to use that camera phone". I turned the car around, parked across the street from the cow and walked across the road. She couldn't care less that I was walking up to her. I got to within 2 or 3 feet from her, held my phone out and took 5 pictures. I went home and transferred the pictures to my PC and printed them to show the family. As I showed my pictures, something snapped inside me. I suddenly had a desire to photograph everything I could whenever I could.
I started taking my digital camera everywhere. During lunch at work I drove around and took pictures around the farms in the area. Weekends I would drive around looking for landscape and nature photo opportunities.
To make a long story endless... a month and about $1,000 later, I now own a new Nikon N75 SLR film camera. It came with 2 Nikkor lenses (a 28-80mm and a 70-300mm), UV filters for the lenses, a Nikon camera bag and a couple of other things. I have bought about 10 photography books and a bunch of photography magazines. I also talked my wife into letting me get a new SB-50DX Speedlight flash.
So here I am. Thanks for reading my story. I wonder if some of you had similar moments where you realized that the photography bug had bitten you? I look forward to participating in your great group here.
Here is the best of the 5 pictures I took of that cow: (keep in mind that it is just from a camera-phone, so the quality is not very good)
First - my name is Stan, I'm 41 and I live around Boston Massachusetts.
Up until October of this year, photography was not something I had a big interest in. I owned a simple 110 camera for years, but I don't know how I got it and I barely ever used it. A couple of years ago I was on vacation with the family and we decided to buy a digital camera - a Kodak DX4330. Even then I just didn't have any passion for it and just used it to record vacation/birthday/party moments.
In September I got a new Cell phone that had some features that I needed and it happened to come with a built-in camera. I tried it a few times, but generally didn't care about the camera feature.
Then it happened. Last month I was in my car driving around in my home town listening to a book on CD. I have a long commute to work and I have become hooked on listening to audio books to help pass the commute time. So, it's raining a little - just a slight drizzle - and as I pass a field to my right I see a cow standing right up against the wire fence just a couple of feet off the road. I love animals of all kinds and I though "hmmm - this is a good chance to use that camera phone". I turned the car around, parked across the street from the cow and walked across the road. She couldn't care less that I was walking up to her. I got to within 2 or 3 feet from her, held my phone out and took 5 pictures. I went home and transferred the pictures to my PC and printed them to show the family. As I showed my pictures, something snapped inside me. I suddenly had a desire to photograph everything I could whenever I could.
I started taking my digital camera everywhere. During lunch at work I drove around and took pictures around the farms in the area. Weekends I would drive around looking for landscape and nature photo opportunities.
To make a long story endless... a month and about $1,000 later, I now own a new Nikon N75 SLR film camera. It came with 2 Nikkor lenses (a 28-80mm and a 70-300mm), UV filters for the lenses, a Nikon camera bag and a couple of other things. I have bought about 10 photography books and a bunch of photography magazines. I also talked my wife into letting me get a new SB-50DX Speedlight flash.
So here I am. Thanks for reading my story. I wonder if some of you had similar moments where you realized that the photography bug had bitten you? I look forward to participating in your great group here.
Here is the best of the 5 pictures I took of that cow: (keep in mind that it is just from a camera-phone, so the quality is not very good)
... i wonder if he's still around
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