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Continuing Education

Part 6 One thing about being a photographer is that once you finish school you have to keep taking classes to help you stay current.  This is really big now since photography has changed and is changing so much every year.  Back in the 70's and 80's it was important too, so we were very […]

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School, Navy and Friends

    An interesting thing about my instructors was that they both came from Navy backgrounds.  One had been a photographer in the Navy and taught photography in the Navy.  The other left the Navy and went to Brooks Institute in California and studied photography.  They pretty much split up the teaching with one teaching more of […]

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1979 Begins A New Chapter

Part 3 In the fall of 1979 my parents helped me move into my dorm and drove away leaving me in a strange place where I knew nobody!  The next day we started class and were all given a lens from a view camera.  Our first assignment was to get to know that lens.  We […]

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That Thing Is Huge!

I've Got A Big New Camera, Now What? When my interest in photography grew to the point that I was pretty sure that it would be what I would do we started asking around to see what the best course of action would be for an education in photography.  After asking several photographers and doing […]

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You Did What!

Over the last few months this topic just keeps coming back to my mind.  After being a photographer for the last 30 years I have lots of memories of this profession, both good and bad.  All the time people ask me why I became a photographer and how long I have been doing it.  So […]

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