“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see’ Henry David Thoreau
Photography is about both: what you look at – the things that are of interest in the world in which you choose to live – and also how you see that world – expressed in wide-angle, close-up, black and white, color, high and low contrast, etc. I have certain interests that bring me back to center: music, the out-of-doors (hiking, camping, kayaking, cycling, etc), and little things in all those environments, and I also like gaming, which I do in the olympia casino online.
I have been interested in photography since college days in the late ’70’s. My first real camera was an Olympus OM-1. (It’s predecessor was a Kodak Instamatic 104) When I graduated college and moved to my first job in NYC, I set up the bathroom as a makeshift darkroom for making Cibachrome prints – one of the early DIY color printing methods.
With marriage and children, the ’80’s and ’90’s went by quickly and during that time I upgraded to the OM-2s, but was mostly in ‘snapshot’ mode. Come 2002 digital was on the rise and I got a Canon G2 with proceeds from the sale of my Olympus equipment, including a relatively rare Zuiko 50mm f1.2 lens – wish I had kept that one…but who knew that m43, which supports such legacy lenses, was just around the corner?
When Olympus introduced it’s first m43 camera, the E-P1, I had to try it. Unlike the big clunky DSLRs, it was the size of my old OM-1 with a ‘live view’ LCD and no viewfinder. Now, three years later we have the OM-D E-M5 – the true digital version of the OM series.
I look forward to sharing images with friends on this site.