Hi,
Welcome to my picture gallery. I've always had an interest in photograpghy, encouraged by my father with a Konica FT-1, bought for me at the tender age of 12, but didn't really want to get into it until a trip to Europe after graduating from SF State in 1995. I decided before the trip that whatever I shot I would learn to develop and print by myself. So, I took my Canon Photura camera--which was fully automatic as I wasn't super comfortable with all the technical aspects of a manual SLR, not to mention the high probablity that the camera would be damaged or lost on such a trip--bought only black and white film, came back and signed up for a photo class at the Harvey Milk Rec Center in San Francisco and have been dancing with "taking pictures" ever since.
I love getting the shot, seeing the entire story in the image when it comes back to me in review. When, regardless of what I've witnessed, a complete stranger still gets what's going on without any caption or explanation. Just beauty, joy, sometimes pain or sadness. I especially like when someone comes upon an image and just utters "wow". Happens sometimes. Not a lot, but enough to keep me firing away.
so. Pictures, images, my kids, my husband, my friends, my life. Great life. Love it.
Welcome to my picture gallery. I've always had an interest in photograpghy, encouraged by my father with a Konica FT-1, bought for me at the tender age of 12, but didn't really want to get into it until a trip to Europe after graduating from SF State in 1995. I decided before the trip that whatever I shot I would learn to develop and print by myself. So, I took my Canon Photura camera--which was fully automatic as I wasn't super comfortable with all the technical aspects of a manual SLR, not to mention the high probablity that the camera would be damaged or lost on such a trip--bought only black and white film, came back and signed up for a photo class at the Harvey Milk Rec Center in San Francisco and have been dancing with "taking pictures" ever since.
I love getting the shot, seeing the entire story in the image when it comes back to me in review. When, regardless of what I've witnessed, a complete stranger still gets what's going on without any caption or explanation. Just beauty, joy, sometimes pain or sadness. I especially like when someone comes upon an image and just utters "wow". Happens sometimes. Not a lot, but enough to keep me firing away.
so. Pictures, images, my kids, my husband, my friends, my life. Great life. Love it.
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