I met a young physician this weekend and we began to talk about photography. I shoot with a two bit camera (or my iPhone) now, and sometimes I am compelled to say that in the old film world, I worked with top quality gear.
This portrait of daughter two, was taken with a Hasselblad 500c. It was a fabulous camera for portraits.
Unfortunately, I'll never afford digital equipment that can hold a candle to my old Hassy or my Leicas or my Nikons. Those cameras exist, but they are totally out of my budget.
Oh well!
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But just think: you can now pick up that hassy for $500. So in my opinion there has never been a better time to be a photographer, particularly the amateur varient. Just look at the photos that Jeff Levis posted on facebook: even an iphone would have made those infinitely better.
Dave, your writings and example have truly inspired my photography and I am very grateful for that. With the high stress of being a trial lawyer, I have found absolutely NOTHING that compares with photography in making the world go away. Other than gardening......maybe you had something to do with THAT as well!
Gardening is my lifesaver now days.
I put the cover on a low hoop house on two beds today. I'll let it set a couple of days and then put some seeds in.
Glad to help any way I can. Sometimes we think we help and we don't.
Oh well.
I have started my spring planting of clematis and sweat peas this week. And as soon as costco gets their bare root roses in, I will start on those.
Wonder of wonders! Apparently SOMEONE followed your strict admonitions and DID take a lot of our mountaineering photos with a 35 mm. Doug Olsen! And so now apparently he is having them scanned and is uploading them onto facebook very soon.
Right now I can't even put my hands on the hundred of slides I took on our Bicycle trips.
They are somewhere - I think!
Man,if you could find those bicycle slides somehow, I would be happy to take them to costco and pay for having them burned to a disk. That would be so cool.
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