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I am a 28 year old landscape designer and co-own a company that also does the installation of our designs. I am a hobbyist photographer. It all started in high school with a Canon Rebel G. While at the University of Georgia working on my Bachelor of Arts in Religion, I managed to convince the photography teacher to allow me into one photography class. Learned darkroom techniques. Built a pinhole camera for the class, if you have never used one, the DOF is amazing. I acquired a Leica R3 and Hasselblad 500CM, but still did not shoot too much.

Four years ago, I decided to jump into the new era and purchased a Canon 10D (of course they announced the 20D 2 weeks later). I then began upgrading all my equipment. Two years later and over 10,000 frames, I have learned far more than I thought possible but still have a lifetime ahead to improve. I was at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens one evening last year and saw a man shooting with a Westcott softbox on his shoe-mount flash. I approached him to ask whether he liked it. It turned out that he was there with an Atlanta Flickr group and thanks to John, HamWithCam, I have been sucked in to the Flickr world just as he told me.

I have assembled a nice bag of goodies that I always keep near:
Canon 10D
Canon 100/2.8 macro
Canon 70-200/2.8L IS
Canon 75-300/4.5-5.6 IS
Canon 50/1.8
Canon 28-80/3.5-5.6
Canon 28-105/3.5-4.5
Tamron 17-35/2.8-4
Tamron 28-75/2.8
Canon 1.4x extender
Canon Speedlight 430Ex with Stofen Omnibounce
Westcott Micro Apollo softbox

Canon G9

Bogen 3001Pro tripod with Bogen pistol grip head and pan/tilt head.
Bogen 3249 monopod.
Slik compact tripod for lightweight packing.

Lowepro Nova4 shoulder bag.
Lowepro Rover AVII backpack.

Accessories include circular polarizers, warming filters, cooling filters, neutral density filters, Cokin graduated color filters, and all the black/white filters from days of shooting film.

I still have the Rebel G, the Leica R3 with 50/2 and Elmarit-R 28/2.8, as well as the Hasselblad 500CM with a Carl Zeiss 80/2.8 with waist level finder and the 90degree prism finder with electronic meter.


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