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Hi!

I've been making photos since I discovered the 35mm camera in 1985. I've been shooting ever since, sometimes even getting paid for it (not always as fun as I had hoped!). Most of the time I just captured whatever caught my fancy. When I was paid to shoot, I made thousands of photos. When I wasn't being paid, I made mere hundreds. And when finances were tight, I shot nothing.

And was sad.

Finances are still tight, but in better years I bought my wife a Nikon CoolPix 3200. It's a tiny camera with few options and no manual control. That would offend my "artistic sensibilities" except for the fact that it can produce some really nice photos. So, of course, I "borrow" it from time to time, and life is good because I don't have to pay for negs, prints, or developing. Or shoeboxes. In mid-2008 I "upgraded" to a little Sony point-and-shoot that increased my megapixel size, but didn't really improve the macro stuff I enjoy so much. (Naturally, shortly after it's purchase, the lens zoom broke. So, I'm limited to wide-angle and macro by default!)

Someday I'll buy, beg for, borrow,or steal a nice negative scanner and put my old black and white stuff online. But for now I get to subject you to my digital macro/closeup fetish and random pictures of my kids. And, someday, I also hope to be able to afford a real 35mm format SLR digital camera.

One can always dream...

For more about my photographic journey, see my blog post:

"Making Art: photography, my gallery, and a rambling discourse"

Trivia:

I'm a Pentecostal blogger (yes, it's true, some of us do use cameras when not swinging off of chandeliers!) living in Grand Rapids, Michigan (Cascade, Michigan, actually). I served as the first webmaster for the General Council of the Assemblies of God, was project manager and Internet Operations manager for Christianity Today International, and most recently served there as online media managing editor for CTCourses.com (a CTI property) where I learned to edit digital video. I also worked briefly as marketing and media director for a large Assemblies of God church just outside Nashville, Tennessee. I am currently serving as Associate Publisher for Digital Resources at Zondervan, a book publishing house in Grand Rapids, Michigan, owned by HarperCollins.

I'm in love with my wife and delighted by my children. I would sell my eye-teeth for a decent dSLR. My wife and kids are my fortune. My eye-teeth are not.

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