jeffconlin's photostream  

Born in Washington, DC to a bureaucrat and an antique dealer, happy childhood, great public schools... moved to Baltimore for college and stuck around for many years... gigs as a waiter, owl researcher, NASA videographer, halfway decent musician... now I live in Seattle and play with German motorcycles.

At age 12, I bought my first point-and-shoot 35mm. In high school, I found a Mac IIcx with a flatbed scanner and a new program called Photoshop. In college, I picked up the AE-1 and spent a lot of time in the actual darkroom.

A few significant road trips combined with the lifelong fascination of history and urban development to focus much of my photography on mankind's relationship with landscape and place, though I keep throwing candids and day-to-day shots up as well.

Recently, Flickr has enabled some publishing opportunity, including the annual report of the Patuxent Wildlife Sanctuary in Maryland, a Subaru spec ad, Mid-Columbian Magazine, and most recently Boom! A Journal of California (University of California Press)

cameras along the way...
Canon AE-1 (1996)
amazing, indestructible, dearly missed. stolen in Baltimore with undeveloped rolls of film containing portraits of my grandfather just a week before he passed on.

Minolta Dimage A1 (2004)
bought it the second day of my first trip to the west coast, and it stuck by me for two more cross country adventures, taking great pictures all along the way. Versatile lens and nice big pixels; probably one of the best bridge cameras made.

Nikon D50 (2007)
remarkable image quality, and tough as nails. Sat in a motorcycle pannier for an 11,000 mile cross-continental ride filled with great pictures. Stolen in Seattle.

Ricoh GX100 (2008)
Spontaneous grey-market purchase that justified itself quickly. Pocket size, but with a 24-70mm equiv f2.5 lens and full manual control that makes up for a lot. In B/W mode, the noise resembles TMAX400 grain. Very fun.

Canon EOS Rebel T2i (2010)
my girlfriend (now fiancee) surprised me with this last birthday. Continues the spirit of the D50 with stellar video capability to boot. I can't wait to see where it takes me.

Sony DSC-TX10 (2012)
Insanely small, waterproof, tough "daily carry" camera. Wide lens, great dynamic range and exposure. Tough to give up manual control, but the images it captures are very, very good.