edwinblaw

After starting at age 13 in 1937 with $$ from my morning and afternoon paper route, I bought a a Kodak f 6.3, 1/100 th sec. folding camera - a few dollars at a time. Mom let me make a cardboard dark room in our garage. Equipped with complete developing pans, etc., printing and enlarging - added a piece at a time. Took and sold 620 size pictures @ 3¢, 5x7 @ 10¢ in neighborhood until senior high school year; discovered girls.

1940 to Texas A&M, class of '44, Navy V-5 Sept. '42; Marine pilot WW II, BS Arch. Eng. U of Tx 1949, called back for Korean as a captain, returned to being a construction estimator and project manager, Wichita, KS. Formed The Law Companies 1959, flew our twin Cessnas for business.

Continued hobby with numerous cameras but no "learning" follow up. Played a lot of tournament golf.

Retired in 1994 and later lost full use of legs, returned to old hobby as a challenge. Now: Canon T2i. Apple iMac, Macbook, iPad, iPhone. Lightroom, CS5. Working very hard to become more proficient. At 87 , very fortunate and so happy to be able to meet new folks who, for the most part, are so much more talented and knowledgeable than I. Very big and important part of my life now.

Member Pensacola Wide Angle Photo Club and NAPP.

Stop learning, stop living.

ed

rocco_7155 Loc: Connecticut/Louisiana

WOW.... Thank you for your service, and for sharing your story. May of us here are too um, er, ahem, "mature" (translation= old and broken) to be posting pics of Everest base camp parties, but we still have a good little group and alot of awesome photos posted. Best of all, WELCOME to this little band of misfits.

edwinblaw

Glad to be aboard, sir,

gessman Loc: Colorado

Welcome sir. You sound like a man I can respect. Sounds like you've had a full and rich life and are planning on doing it some more. Look forward to seeing your images on here soon.

edwinblaw

Thank you and I'd like to do that as soon as I can get my procrastination under control, Not as easy as smoking and alcohol

;-)

ed

gessman Loc: Colorado

I like that, understand it perfectly, and like your sense of humor. :-)