My dad was in the Army. He was stationed in Korea, patrolling the border, during the early 60s (I'm pretty sure). He bought a Ricoh TLR (twin-lens reflex camera) while he was in the Orient and took photos and developed them in a darkroom in town. Everyone would hang their negatives up in the drying cabinet and pick them up and print them when they could get back to town. Sometimes they would print another guy's negs if they liked a photo on them... I just remember the Ricoh at Christmas, on the tripod, smiling in front of the tree with my sister. Dad had a subscription to Popular Photography; photos with filters and all the groovy models seemed so magical. He gave me my first camera, a Kodak Tele-Ektra 1, one of those Christmases.
I’ve done a fair bit of photography since then. Took classes at Community College, been in shows, newspapers, shot from the hip… My first digital, my beloved Nikon Coolpix 4300, is failing and my family is giving me another camera for Christmas this year! I will be participating in the One Photo Per Day Challenge in 2010 to learn it’s paces and to renew my love affair with Photography!
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