I’ve been taking pictures for much of my life. When I was a kid, I got a cheap 110 film camera for Christmas. Like many 110 cameras, it was little more than a plastic toy, but it was something my brother and I put to good use for many years. When I was older, I got a point-and-shoot Nikon 35mm camera, which I also enjoyed. But it wasn’t until I took an introductory photography course in college that I really got into it. I used a Pentax 35mm SLR and shot black-and-white film, doing all of the developing and enlarging the old-fashioned way. It was the very first class I ever took in college (8 AM Monday morning!) and it became my favorite, combining technical know-how with artistic sensibilities.
As technology increased, film gave way to digital, and I got a digital point-and-shoot camera in 2004, an HP PhotoSmart 720. It was an old when I got it, but the price was good and I was looking for a camera to take on trips. Unfortunately, it was slow and didn’t have the customization I got used to with an SLR camera. I finally got around to buying a digital SLR camera last year, a Canon 40D, which I have enjoyed immensely.
I have a lot of photographs on my photo site. The following are a couple of photos I took over Easter around Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis…
Two people play guitar and listen to the old vinyl near Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis.
Downtown Minneapolis as seen from Lake of the Isles.
A bike peeks from around the corner near Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis.
I’ll be posting more photos as I take them.