According to Dictionary.com, The word “photography” was first used in 1839.  It’s origin is from “photo” or “light” and “graphy” or “writing”, i.e. writing with light.  It is the process of producing images through the action of light on sensitive surfaces.  In effect, photography freezes light - or captures it.  The captured light is a view of what existed at the time. Hence a photograph is quite literally a “slice of time”.  A photographer seeks out interesting light to “slice” and controls how it is captured with his tools - cameras, lenses, filters, tripods, computer, etc.  Learning how to find compelling light to capture and then capturing it correctly is a lifelong quest.

My first camera was a 35mm German rangefinder that my father brought back from WW II and gave me when I was a freshman in high school about 40 years ago.  I ran many rolls of Tri-X through it and developed them myself (to save money).  I didn’t print many until I took my first photography course from Mr. Dove - who had been a photographer with the Baltimore Sun.  As part of his course we had access to a darkroom.

My early study of photography and my electrical engineering education have enabled me to follow in fascination as computers and photographic technology have combined and exponentially changed what we’re able to do to when we capture light as slices of time.

My goals are to keep learning and to keep making better photographs.

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