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I was 10 years old when John F. Kennedy was shot.
I was 15 years old when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were shot.
I was 16 years old when Woodstock happened, and the first man walked on the moon.
I was 20 years old when the first Arab Oil Embargo occurred.
I was 21 when Richard Nixon resigned as President.
And I was 55 when the second non-WASP, first African-American was elected and inaugurated President of the United States.

I am married with two children currently 3 and 4 years old.

I started taking pictures with a Canon TX-1, and AE-1P in the mid 1980's. I switched to Nikon when the N8008 came out and later added two F4s's to my film system.

Started shooting digital with a compact camera we received as a present prior to the arrival of our first daughter, while still shooting 35mm film. Then in 2006 I moved up to a DSLR adding a Nikon D200, then in Dec 2007 I added a D300, and in Aug of 2008 I added a D700 not long after it came out, and this past August I added a second D700 to my system. I still have but rarely use the D200 and D300.

I was born and raised in Mechanicsburg PA about 90 miles north of where I currantly live in Harpers Ferry, WV. This is just like where I grew up. I am most interested in shooting in West Virginia. Having moved here in 2002, and traved once to the North Fork area staying in the North Fork Mountain Inn B&B. That area is stunning and I really want to concentrate on the Dolly Sods, Blackwater, Seneca Rocks, Smoke Hole, and Canaan Valley areas, while looking to add more to this list. I also would like to get involved in land use and conservation photography, such as Mountaintop Removal coal mining, and the PATH power lines.

I enjoy taking pictures of people, children, water, mountains, flowers, wildlife, and much more.

I also appreciate many styles of photography that I do not shoot, and enjoy studying all styles of photography to learn as there is alway more to learn...

Professional Memberships
NAPP National Association of Photoshop Professionals
NANPA North American Nature Photographers Association

For Family images see my other flickr site at

www.flickr.com/photos/madidadi/
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The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
they just make the best of everything they have.
Life isn't about how to survive the storm…
…but how to dance in the rain.

Make it a Great Day!

Michael


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Plundering Appalachia, Butler and Wuerthner
Coal Country, Burns, Evans, and House
Bringing Down the Mountains, Shirley Stuart Burns
Coal River, Michael Shnayerson