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12/23/2003 03:20:11 PM · #1 |
here is mine:
At the tender age of 7 young Paul found a small kodak camera and began snapping a host of shots throughout the New England area. But, as it were, there was no film in the camera most times, and other times the film sat in his parents china hutch never to be developed. Aside from a very few vacation shots and pictures of dead squirells on country backroads with the aid of a programmable minolta SLR, very little recorded work exists.
With the advent of digital cameras, somehow his images began to be recorded, and blurry as they may be, his love for music, art, poetry, beauty and justice have all managed to elude his photographic work.
Message edited by author 2003-12-23 15:20:54. |
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12/23/2003 03:35:42 PM · #2 |
| I was 21 when I bought my first camera, and I was a pro @ 23. The frog photos in my portfolio where shot 6 months after I bought my camera. A rebel, and I shot hundreds of roles of chrome through that thing. Luckily I had a pro take me under his wings. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't of had the opportunities that I did. |
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12/23/2003 06:45:44 PM · #3 |
| I was introduced to the world of photography when I was in my early teens. My father collected cameras, both old and new. I don't really recall him taking many photos, but he liked specs and equipment. I got to use almost every make and model of 35mm, and I really enjoyed a Hasselblad he had purchased too. By the time I was in high school I was developing my own film in our kitchen, and enlarging photos in a make-shift darkroom in my father's bathroom closet! I can almost smell that strong odor of photographic chemicals when I close my eyes now. When I was 17 I won a photographic scholarship to the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale. It was a special summer session for teens who had not graduated high school yet...we attended the regular first semester in the summer in hopes we would want to return as a full-time student when we graduated. It was my first summer away from my parents, and I lived on the Ft. Lauderdale strip...needless to say it was a life-changing experience. Anyway, I spent my teenage years behind a camera and in the darkroom...experimenting and having fun. I was also a staff writer and photographer on my high school newspaper. Then life happened...I went to college...got married...had a child....bills, etc.. I asked my father one birthday for a simple snap-shot camera ( shame on me) and I got further and further away from the art of photography. I am slowly finding my way back now....I miss having a 35mm, but I am picking up the pieces with my new digital. |
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12/23/2003 07:31:24 PM · #4 |
| born into a religious cult.. my dad died when i was two.. we left the cult later that year after i was kicked in the head by a female member of the cult. to mankato we went, my single mother with her seven children. from then it was foodstamps and welfare... 3 of my older siblings (of 4) dropped out of high school, and i was to repeat the pattern... until.. i found a camera on the road one day.. it was a magical camera that spewed motivation into my brain... witih it, i conquered france and became supreme dictator of jeremiahland. *cough.. a portion of this story is fabricated. |
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12/23/2003 07:35:42 PM · #5 |
born into a religious cult.. my dad died when i was two.. we left the cult later that year after i was kicked in the head by a female member of the cult. to mankato we went, my single mother with her seven children. from then it was foodstamps and welfare... 3 of my older siblings (of 4) dropped out of high school, and i was to repeat the pattern... until.. i found a camera on the road one day.. it was a magical camera that spewed motivation into my brain... witih it, i conquered france and became supreme dictator of jeremiahland. *cough.. a portion of this story is fabricated.
Miah
What, the part about you droping out of High School?
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12/23/2003 09:34:57 PM · #6 |
| Miah- thats the type bio I was looking for. |
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12/24/2003 06:18:00 AM · #7 |
| hehe.. i kid you.. the camera wasn't magic.. and i didn't actually find it.. i haven't actually conquered france.... yet... all of that other stuff is true. |
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