I've never done much in terms of blogging (that is, if Facebook or Patch.com don't count). Indeed, I've very little talent with website and webpage design. But since this is my first attempt at blogging, here goes.
I'm interested in photography big time. I have a Canon XSi Rebel/450D camera with the appropriate lens for the camera. One of them is wide-angle, one is general purpose and the last one is for macros (closeups). I also have an electronic flash and a variety of accessories such as lens extension tubes and filters.
Photography has been a passion and an interest of mine since I was eight or nine years old. Father would take photos of me with his Ikoflex camera (a twin-lens German-built reflex camera in which the viewfinder was on the top and the main
lens was on the bottom. Father had to look down through the top
of the camera body in order to compose and take his photos.
Mother was also interested in photography--but her camera gear was much, much simpler.
All she had was a Kodak Instamatic camera with no controls for shutter speed, film speed or aperture width. She even had trouble focusing any camera correctly, as I found out when she tried to take my photograph prior to my graduation from high school in 1981. Never would have happened had my father or sister been alive to take the photo--they were great photographers.
My sister had a Canon AE-1 camera. It was a single-lens reflex camera with a hot-shoe attachment for a flash and controls for aperture, shutter speed and film speed. Alas, I was too lazy to worry about making photos with much thought about those factors and related concepts such as depth-of-field as it pertains to exposure and handling action. I wish I had been more diligent as a photographer back then; it would have made a difference.
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