Hi. I've subscribed to this group since the late '90s but have been active
only sporadically. I check in to see what's happening quite often, though.
Now I'm an empty nester, hoping to have more time to participate. This will
serve nicely as a re-introduction.
I got seriously interested in photography in 1971 when I spent the first of
two summers on Devon Island in the Canadian Arctic. I bought a Taron
rangefinder to record the experience. Greatly enjoyed learning to use it.
By the end of that summer I had decided to live in the North and to be a
photographer.. By 1975 I was living in the Yukon and working hard at
teaching myself photography. In 1979 I landed my first full-time
photographic job at a newspaper in Alberta. After two years I went North
again, to the Northwest Territories, and from 1986 to 2006 was the
photographer at a museum in Yellowknife. These days I'm retired in British
Columbia, shooting and selling some fine art work. I've also gone back to
my roots, playing with screw mount and early K mount gear shooting bulk
loaded black and white.
My web site (whcih I don't update often enough) is:
www.johnpoirier.ca
Cheers
John Poirier
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From: "Derby Chang" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 1:44 AM
Subject: When did it click
Friend-shooter of mind asked me today, when did it click for you? When did
you know photography was the game to be in? Oddly, unlike a lot of my past
history, I could pinpoint exactly the moment
I was sent out by my then-employer to do some work in Simi Valley, CA.
Bored, I picked up a Ricoh KR-10M with a modest Rikonen zoom (both long
since stolen). Landing on the weekend, I went for a drive down PCH to
adjust my body clock, with a plan to visit the Getty museum. After being
rejected because I hadn't booked, and after finding a not quite legal park
on the beach, I saw a pretty lady with a pet pig. Not understanding the
honourable history of street photography, I begged her to let me take a
photo, which she did, to my gratitude. It could have gone the other way,
but that shot made me think, there was something to this hobby. Fine-boned
ladies will let you take their picture with their pig, what's not to
enjoy?
http://members.iinet.net.au/~derbyc/10/10_01/10_01_click/index.htm
So.....when did it first click for you?
D
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