I got my first camera when I was 10 years old, it was a box camera (Zeiss)
and took fairly large negatives, 6 x 9 cm. It only took 8 pictures on each
roll of film. Of course, black and white... But, due to the size of
its negatives, these pictures were quite sharp. From this I graduated in
my teens to a 35 mm Zeiss camera, then to a "Honeywell Pentax." The last
is a single lens reflex camera.
Besides all the B&W pictures, I have thousands of color slides
documenting my family and life over a period of half a century. Lately I
am using digital photography (Olympus C-3030 zoom and Olympus C-2100 Ultra Zoom.)
Digital photography is really enjoyable
since I can take a picture and have it on my computer or printed in full color
in a matter of minutes! All the pictures shown in this website were taken
by these two digital cameras (except those pictures from friends, with a note to that
effect.)
The
picture on the left is of a Bradford Pear leaf which fell on our deck. It
appears like though it is made of three concentric leaves! Click on it to
see a bigger picture.