[LRflex] Re: Why?

That's a good question but it happened so long ago I am not sure.  I had a 
Kodak instamatic and a Kodak Brownie as late ago as 12 years old (I am 56).  
Loved to take scenery shots.  Not so many people shots.  Really got serious 
when I knew Biology was going to be my area of interest.  Science and 
photography for me went together like art and photography for some others.  
I knew since 4th grade I wanted to be a science teacher.  In college I 
purchased my first serious camera - 35mm SLR Edixamat-D.  Still miss that 
camera at times. Got intersted in macro mostly because of my biology 
interest.  Wanted to be able to show others the world as I saw it, and then 
communicate that to my future students. So, there has been this strong link 
between science and photography for me, and what I like to take photos of 
has been strongly linked to what I am doing in science.  I became facinated 
in B&W because it was something I could do in my house.  As I was growing 
up, three doors away lived Trevor Kincaid, a retired biologist who had 
taught at the University of Washington and founded the Friday Harbor Labs.  
He is the one who turned my on to science in the 4th grade.  He did a lot of 
B&W photography in his basement and I spent lots of time there learning 
science and B&W developing.  My first "enlarger" was my dad's Argus slide 
projector.  I mounted negatives in slide mounts, used something to block 
most of the light fromt he bulb and projected them to some paper.  All this 
in the darkened woodshed under our front porch.

So, that is how I got started.  My interest have branched out to many other 
photographic subjects, but macro is still high on my list as I have taught 
science the last 33 years.  I'll stop since this was to be just how I got 
started, not where I ended up.

Aram

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