Photography

I became interested in photography when I was stationed in Cubi Point in the Phillipines in 1971.  I began with a Mimolta SRT-101, and ended up getting Minolta MK by the time I was stationed in Diego Garcia in 1973. I got to take quite a few pictures in Diego Garcia because of my interest in photography, I became the Command Photographer and shot hundreds of photos during that time. I will be adding some of the better ones to this web site.

During my travels, I took mail order photography courses and while I was stationed in Naples, Italy, I was able to take some college level photography courses. Most of my camera equipment was taken during a burglery while I was away on vacation with only my Minolta SRT 102, and that put a damper on my photographic hobby for a while.  The cost of replacing my cameras and sending my film to a reliable lab in the US wained my photographic enthusiam.  But when some of the labs began sending not digital images but began using the internet to post them before the prints and negatives arrived in the mail, I began to get more interested in photography as a hobby.

Equipment:

My main camera is a Nikon D300 (reviews here)   has a CMOS sensor with twelve megapixels, a new auto-focus sensor with 51-points (15 of which are cross-type sensitive), there's focus tracking by color, scene recognition, Picture Control presets, six frames per second continuous shooting (or eight frames per second with a battery pack), Compact Flash UDMA support, Live View (with contrast detect AF) and the mighty impressive 3.0" 922,000 pixel LCD monitor (oh and HDMI video output). I recently purchased a Nikon D7500 (reviews here) for it's tilt screen and the 4K video feature.

( I also use a Nikon CoolPix S9600 for snap and shoot, and a FujiFilm FineFix XP130 waterproof camera to use around water)

About These Photos

While I have personally taken many of the photos on this web site, I'll be including quite a few taken by others (my friends,collegues, etc.).  This website is just a place to share my experiences with friends.

Most of the later photos were taken with cameras of three-to-ten megapixels capability.  In some cases they have been cropped, and all have been scaled down to no larger than 640 pixels per side.  This makes them printable from the web site with most browsers (if you click the print link in the upper-right corner).  If you are interested in the larger, original size and detailed photo without the desciptive text, just click on the photo.  A new window will open with a full-size image.

I'm an amateur, doing this for fun.    If you like any of these photos, great!  If not, there are lots of great photo galleries online.  I'll have a list of a few great photo galleries on my Links page.