Well, it's working for weight loss

My blog for weight loss is working, why not a blog for my photos as well. My myspace blog can't really be shared as well as this and I already come to blogger to write my other blog. LOL

I painted a shoebox black, took a piece of tin and pounded a hole in it and using black electrical tape (matte of course) I created my first pinhole camera. This was with help from a course at the Academy of Sciences (AOS) in San Francisco. I was 8 years old. My first photo was of a penguin statue in the courtyard of the AOS.

I was given a 110 keychain camera for a birthday present a little while after that and took some awful photos of my toys (My Little Pony), some very blurry photos of my parents' friend's child, some tidepool pictures...but the point is I loved the photographs. They meant a lot to me as an 8 year old.

Fast forward to Jr. High and High School, you couldn't find a day where I wasn't saying "Hey Bren" immediately followed by Bren whipping her pretty, long hair around and the sound of a *click*. I began to take more artistic shots at this time, fueled by my dad's secret stash of old camera equipment that I'd found in his closet.

I bought my first 'real' camera when I got married and moved out. It was the Canon Rebel G and it's sitting in front of me on my desk right now. Film photography is tougher in the digital age now that you don't have to be AS selective about what to shoot - if you don't like something you delete it and take it again.

So for the digital girl in me, I have a Sony F828. But that craze started with a Sony Mavica... the very first one with the diskette recording (I'd carry 20 diskettes at a time) and it had an amazing 1.3 megapixel... My best friend later bought the 2nd version at a whopping 2.1 I believe.

In between I've had a Kodak digital which I didn't care for and a Sony T1 which was nice but the flash was a bit lacking. (it was pocket sized though so it was handy for kid shots)

I recently joined some photography groups. Some of the photographers on these groups blow me away and take the shots that I want to take when I grow up. I do consider myself an amateur as I'm only now learning to get off the crutch of "Automatic Mode". I'm relearning things that I knew way back when...and the world of photography has always called to me, but in a very obvious way. A pretty tree, a very serene hillside...but these groups are pushing me to look a little deeper...or from a different perspective anyway.

I'm just having fun and for now that's all I want to do.