Your Claim To Frame

MY FIRST 82 YEARS

The speed is 1/125 of a second. It’s a lot of time in a butterfly’s life but a landscape changes only with the time of day and the seasons. For a photographer, combined with an F-stop, it’s an exposure.

What causes the photographer to press the shutter is a personal evaluation. For some, they rigidly follow the ‘Rule of Three’. For others it’s just the way they feel that will make a good picture. I go that way.

Credits:
I took all of the candid pictures for my 1941 High School Year Book.

One of the pictures I took in Greenland in 1944 was published in US Camera but my cousin lost the negative.

I once left world-class pictures that I took with my Nikkormat on top of my car in Montreal and drove away.

Studied painting at the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Students League which, I guess, has had an effect on my photography--for good or ill.

Spent more than decade as a member and board member of the Berks Camera Club arranging local exhibits; The Reading Museum, RACC, Institute of the Arts, The Art Store, etc. Shot picture in Europe, North Africa, Russia, the Arctic, South America and Reading, PA. Won a few awards here and there.

Now, I’ve involved myself in Adobe Photoshop, a program that permits you to do wonderful things with pixels. I enjoy working with the computer as much as I ever did in a dark room. I take pictures because I enjoy the whole process. That’s why.