This may date me a little…but when I first started out in photography, digital cameras were  just a very cool concept.  As they slowly made their depute, they were crazy expensive, but soon became the norm, and film has almost became a lost art.  This both saddens me and brings me joy.  I have many fond memories of the darkroom, and nothing beats watching the image appear before your eyes.  The darkroom is truly a whole other art.  If you worked with film much you know that not only do you have to be a wiz at photography, ie fstop, aperture etc. but also at the processing in the darkroom.  When I got my first digital camera, I was ecstatic, but a little leery.  Now I don’t know what I would do without it!!!  The convenience of being able to look and see if  i got the image, or if you are squinting is amazing!  And, though I still tip my hat to the darkroom talents of film, photoshop also requires a bit of talent!

I remember processing film, then getting out the paints, and painstakingly trying to match the colors and shadows and hi-lights correctly in order to get images like the following.  Though it still requires a steady hand, Zoom is amazing, and the time to achieve striking images tike the following is cut in half, easily.   Ok, I will stop babbleing about boring tecnical stuff and show you the pictures. After all, that is why you are here, right!?

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