The35mmKid !
That's him. But he's a little bit taller than 35mm!
Here's what he writes ...
It all started way back in the early 1970's when my father gave me my first camera, a Zorky 4, that good-old fully manual 35mm film camera which came over to the west from the stable that was the KMZ factory in Krasnogorsk, Russia. They were the days, cutting "my teeth" the good-old-fashioned-way! My own first purchase was the (apparently) semi-pro Canon EOS10, another 35mm film camera; this became my faithful "bread-and-butter" friend and remained so for many years. It wasn't that I didn't have other film cameras, the medium format Mamiya C330 was amongst them, but I knew the EOS10 intimately, and I liked the 35mm format best. So, the 35mmKid was born!
Nowadays, like most others, film has been replaced with the digital, and although the transition was made with real reluctance, it has been a very worthwhile journey. At the last count, I had over 50 thousand (35mm camera equivalent) images.
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Views and Vistas
Life is always full of views and vistas. It's a pity to miss them!
I have lost count of the number of times a beautiful scene or a picturesque moment presented itself right in front of my eyes. And my camera was not right where it was needed - in my hand. Numerous are the occasions when I thought, for one reason or another, "nope, I'll not take it with me today," and later regretted the choice. It could have been because the weather/sky was "flat", or I was only nipping out for a moment, or yes, believe it or not, I couldn't quite be bothered. Unforgivable! And then there are those times when it is simply impossible to take the picture. Such was the case driving along the motorway some years ago when I saw an utterly fabulously sunlit evening scene of fields of creamy wheat swaying under a gentle breeze, all seemingly set alight with tongues of orange flame, made all the more vivid by the presence of partially silhouetted electricity pylons in the foreground backlit in fiery red. It’s not easy to capture the scene when it’s not possible to stop. But what a memory, and what a picture it would have made! Putting these types of moment aside, from now on, I keep telling myself, keep your camera with you. I might just do it one day.
There's always something to see on the other side of every door. Come on in. Enjoy the views.
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