On 11/17/2014 10:14 PM, ChrisB wrote:
30 years, Bill!
Similar for me. I was very engaged in photography as a teen and in Uni. Marriage and joining the Coast Guard right out
of Uni didn't stop me but did slow me down. Also, photography was a relatively expensive thing for me at the time. I
really wanted to do interesting things with color, and that stepped the whole thing up a lot. What I was able to do
disappointed me.
Gradually, work, children, life, death, and so on, ate away at the practice, if not the interest. Sure, I took quite a
few pictures, of family and friends, mostly at birthdays and holiday gatherings, and snaps on holidays, where I
sometimes tried to get serious. But I wouldn't have considered myself a photographer. OM-2n with T32 for OTF flash, was
magic. :-)
Not long before I joined this list, I was getting back to photography for its own sake. My personal breakthrough was a
limited edition of PS (3?, 4?) that came with my first scanner. I bought the scanner because I wasn't happy with the
scans I was getting with developing.
Suddenly, my photographic world opened up! I could control my own scans. And, most amazing, I could start actually doing
the things with color images that I'd dreamed of all those decades before!!
The methods were entirely different than I might have imagined back then, but I could do it - and, I didn't have to
mess with icky chems in the darkroom.
I hadn’t realised, but now you’re making up for lost time :-)
I like to think I have been, too. Well, from my personal perspective, I have,
whatever anyone else may think.
P. Moose
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