About
I have been taking pictures since I was a teenager running around with a manual-everything camera.
I spent many days of my childhood in a darkroom with a red light shining over slowly emerging images. The smell of processing chemicals still brings nostalgic memories.
But the times have changed, and the digital wave brought out vivid images from every corner of the world. The darkroom moved to our computers, and the old prints and albums moved online for everyone to see and enjoy.
I use mostly Canon gear including my latest toy, the Canon 5D, with a number of zoom and prime lenses.
I would like to leave you with a quote I find particularly inspirational by Theodore Roosevelt from a 1910 speech he gave in Paris:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
I spent many days of my childhood in a darkroom with a red light shining over slowly emerging images. The smell of processing chemicals still brings nostalgic memories.
But the times have changed, and the digital wave brought out vivid images from every corner of the world. The darkroom moved to our computers, and the old prints and albums moved online for everyone to see and enjoy.
I use mostly Canon gear including my latest toy, the Canon 5D, with a number of zoom and prime lenses.
I would like to leave you with a quote I find particularly inspirational by Theodore Roosevelt from a 1910 speech he gave in Paris:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
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