"Hello World"

I'm going to be brutally honest from the start; I'm not really sure I have anything to say.

I mean I thought it might be interesting to put pen to paper (so to speak) about my transition from film to pixels. You see I've been taking photographs literally since I can remember, and developing and printing negatives since I was 14 years old in my friend Buddy's basement. I fell in love with the smells and actions of processing the Kodak 126 film. I'll never forget the first time I cracked open the Instamatic film cartridge and, after picking up the film off of the floor, loading it into the stainless steel film reel.

I transitioned into 35mm, 2 1/4 Sq., 4x5, and 8x10, and at age 52 I decided to leave the world of silver halide and join the digital revolution. So... I sold all of my film "stuff" and bought a Nikon D90 DSLR. Now I'm a pretty tech savvy guy, by day I masquerade as a product designer using a CAD package called SolidWorks, but this thing has more bells and whistles than I've ever seen in a plastic box before in my life. But after playing, reading, playing, more reading, I finally made what I think is a decent photograph. In other words, it looks like film to me.

It was a cold day at Tohickan park and being down at the creek (crick) brought back many memories. I used to camp there with a friend and his family in the summers, and my family had our yearly Memorial Day picnic there every year. I was there about 4 hours. What bliss, just being out photographing and freezing my A__ off (it grew back).

I probably have some other photos from the trip worth printing as well but this was the first to catch my eye, and so it is the first to show up here. I hope this will be a place where I can document my digital growth.

I look forward to hearing what you think.

Muggs