Photography

A Few Words About My Hobby: Digital Photography

Back in 1999, I took my first-ever trip to Las Vegas.  

My friend Chris and I drove down from his home in Fernley, spent the night, and then headed to Laughlin for an Oak Ridge Boys concert.  I took dozens of pictures around Vegas and at the concert.

None of them turned out.  Not one.  I have absolutely no record of my first-ever visit to Las Vegas.  Boy, was I upset.

That fall, in preparation of my first-ever trip to Europe, I purchased my first-ever (notice a trend here?) digital camera. It was a Nikon CoolPix 950, and packed a whopping 2.1 megapixels.

It quite literally changed my life.

I loved the instant feedback of the display on the back of the camera.  Bad picture?  No problem — just delete it and try again.

There were thousands of deletions over the next few years, but an awfully lot of good pictures, too.  When I got to Europe the next year, I took what turned out to be some of the best pictures I have ever taken.  Some of those shots still remain my best work.

I began to not only enjoy taking pictures, but the actual results as well.

I’ve continued this hobby, albeit with a more advanced camera.

You are welcome to see some of my pictures at my Flickr album. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I have enjoyed taking them.