Over the Sea of Grass
When I was a young lad I had a 35mm Kodak camera that I had won at a contest in Montana. About once a year my family and I would go on a trip, usually to a national park and I would be sure to pack the camera. I would take several rolls of film and I would ultimately end up exposing most of it in the first couple of days and then I would have to ration the rest for the remainder. During the time I was scurrying up on rocks and running up to lake shores to snap a quick photo, I had no idea that one day that would turn into something greater. My only goal in those days was to capture the beauty around me so that I could be reminded of it later.
As time has progressed, so has my equipment. During college I used a completely manual Pentax K-1000 to capture almost solely black and white images. I did quite a bit of dark room work in those days, rolling and exposing my own film, and creating prints until the dead of night with only a singular red light for illumination. I learned of different lenses, apertures, and shutter speeds. I first used a tripod and a medium format camera. Needless to say, the quick point and shooting slowly morphed into more deliberate, careful shooting, I had become a “serious” photographer. Besides, now I had a grade depending on it.
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