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When I was growing up we had a room that was specifically called the drawing room, It had a table stacked with paper , paint , paint brushes, crayons, Elmer's glue, scissors, tape and other art supplies that I or my brothers were free to use for arts and crafts.
My Mom was an art major and had several boxes of oil paints and brushes that I was also encouraged to experiment with. I also remember accompanying her to ceramics class at the local college and could mold clay into things like frogs.
I think the first time I remember consciously looking at the world in a visual way was walking around the back yard after playing in the kiddy pool and wearing a water mask on my face that was completely full of water. It distorted everything into fuzzy rainbow-ee abstractions of colors and shapes.
My dad had an older 35 mm camera complete with the strap and leather case that clipped up over the lense. He took many slides of us kids and every so many months we would pull out an ancient slide projector and watch dusty family photos in the dark. I think my first camera was a 110 film camera, remember those? Basically I've been taking pictures since then. Love digital.
Comments are welcome, I will probably go look at some of your photos if you do. It is how I meet people that may have a common interest. There are so many great photos on flickr so comments is another way that I may get led to them. However I am on an antiquated computer at the moment and on dial up no less, so if things are loading too slow I will probably pass.
Currently I am using a Canon Powershot SX10 IS. My original intent was to take pictures for subject matter for oil paintings. But I find myself out and about, especially in reasonable weather, maybe on my wifes old motorcycle (gas prices) just looking around and pulling out the camera when something catches my eye. I usually find the late afternoon when the shadows get long to be my favorite time to shoot.
Several years ago I sent a disposable camera up in the air beneath a kite and took a few pictures. My recent discovery of CHDK and a little spare time tinkering to make a kite camera rig allowed me to start taking kite aerial photos with a digital camera. For that I am using a Canon Powershot A570 IS. Wish list is a Gopro for kite aerial photography. A DSLR would be nice.