Harold Gee's photostream  

I have too many cameras and I don't care. And too many photos lost somewhere in the recesses of terabytes of a hard drive, and that's not counting the old black & white prints in boxes, or all the negatives that have been carefully sleeved with their proof sheets. The inevitable result of a lifelong interest in photography is that you end up a librarian...or in my case, not a very good librarian.

I am 63 and a lot of my friends are dead. I've always wanted my photos to be in the hands of those who are in the photos. But it is difficult to find out how to contact them. I picture the aftermath of my own death, and some poor fucker who has to dispense with all my crap...box of photos--trash. Negatives and proof sheets in a binder--trash. So this is my attempt to get these photos out to the folks who should have them. The downloadable large sizes have been scanned at minimum 300dpi so they should print well. And if it's been shot with a digital camera, the largest size is also at it's highest origional resolution. Click on "All Sizes" which is one of the options under the "actions" tab above the photo, and select "Original" which is the largest size, download it and either print them using your own computer printer, or save the file and send it to a professional digital printer. Enjoy!

My basic photo philosophy...you give enough cameras to enough monkeys, you're gonna get some good photos. It's what gives me faith. The great photographer, Robert Doisneau, probably said it best..."If I knew how to make a good photograph, I'd do it every time."

I struggle with cameras, and I'm conflicted. Mostly I have film cameras...35mm SLR, and 35mm rangefinder, and a medium format TLR and Polaroids and specialized panorama cameras...and there are digital cameras too. Sometimes I carry a tiny Casio Exilim S2 or S3 along with my current "serious" digital rig, a Kodak DCS760 with a bracket and flash attachment...a huge beast of a camera on which I can mount my old f-mount manual focus lenses, and I'm mostly okay with it (update; it's just another hassle of a digital camera, and I've decided to go back to using my simple and dependable old film cameras, using a film scanner to convert them from analog to digital. Update two, I've been using an Olympus C-8080 digital camera with which I've become comfortable. Update three, I haven't taken a photo in months...so what). Obviously, I'm picky about all this photo crap, but really, I'm good with most cameras, and not that concerned about megapixels and all the rest of it...just give me a camera I can set on manual, with basic f-stops and shutter speeds so I don't have to outsmart the dang thing, and I'll do the rest. And if the only choice is automatic, I still try to do my best. Cameras are fun.

Many people know me as a photographer, but I've also had a lifelong interest in jewelry design. There's a few photos of Jewelry I've made in the past in one of my sets. My current "job" has sorta become working on old houses...we bought 'em cheap, long ago, and now we're stuck having to renovate them ourselves...so I've started uploading renovation photos to my photostream as well.