my new toy,… TOOL
After years of looking over my shoulder pecking at my various Macs, our pet-power-dyke, shameless_157, has decided to join the cult. She… Like I… Like I bet a lot of people these days – are taking some proactive steps to change their life.
Part of her re-structuring plan, Shameless has decided to pursue learning something she’s always been interested in… Photography. To make these steps, she’s going to enroll in the local community college, has bought her first mac, and purchased my Digital Camera.
She bought my old Sony at an inflated rate… “In exchange for some Photo 101″ tutoring. It sounds perfectly legitimate even-though payment for such services aren’t necessary.. The real reason behind her inflated offer is unspoken, understood and deeply appreciated on my behalf: To help me get into the new Cyber-Shot®-Pro with minimal investment. It’s basically my old camera on steroids. Fast response, Zeis optics, and 8 mega pixels of – WOW.
I made a promise back on a sad day in 1999 when Kevin and I hawked my old Nikon F4 for survival cash that I would once again return to photography when digital came of age. From what I can tell so far from getting aquatinted with this new rig is… it (digital) has indeed caught up with film.
As excited as I am about the new camera – I’m also excited for Shameless… I remember clearly when I discovered photography… It was 1990. I was an English major freshman at Westminster College with intentions of going onto Journalism School at Mizzou. My dorm roommate was a yearbook / newspaper geek at his old high school. Around that time I saw some of Herb Ritz’s work and was fascinated.
My roommate took me around on campus with his 35mm camera and we took some photos. We then went to the college’s newspaper darkroom where he showed me how to process film and I made my fist print.
That moment when my first print appeared in the developer tray is when my life-path permanently changed. I would later leave Westminster college, return to St. Louis and enroll at Webster University as a Media and Photo Major.
Of course I need to pick up some more gear if I’m going to really grab the discipline by the balls… but I’ve got some little hack work I can go after to help finance acquiring some lighting gear. More on that later…
Been sleeping a lot lately… My brain’s way of dealing with stress…
I wonder just how long I have been “sleepingâ€â€¦
I wonder why I’m feeling like I’m just now starting to wake up.
I wonder why I’m not-blogging about this.