I'm Berni C from near Dayton, OH, looking forward to learning from fellow forum members, and getting to know you! I'm new to UH, but I've been taking snapshots ever since my grandmother let me take photos with her Kodak instamatic camera at Rehobeth Beach when I was about 9 years old, half a century ago. I still remember asking her how Kodak got the 3"x5" prints out of the 136 plastic film cartridge.... LOL! As a teenager, I used my mother's Polaroid Land Camera, and a variety of inexpensive instamatic film cameras (including the Kodak disk model) to take my pictures but they really weren't anything special other than being of sentimental value to me.

It wasn't until I was enlisted in the Navy and had saved up enough for a Minolta A-1 that I even thought about photographing things other than birthday parties and family vacations. Being stationed overseas filled my albums with architectural and landscape photos of the places I visited. And then I married and began a family and it was back to snapshots again for a long time.

About 15 years ago I got my first digital SLR - a Canon Rebel Ti1 - and started reading photography How-to books and websites, and began to slowly learn to do more than just point and shoot with it on Auto. Eventually, one of my sons expressed an interest in photography and I took the opportunity to upgrade to a Ti5 while he took over the Ti1. He is autistic and is obsessed by trains, so most of his images are from the trainspotting excursions our family takes. I've been learning Lightroom and Photoshop post processing over the last few years, and I am always on the lookout for ways to improve my photography skills and my post processing skills.

Over the years, I've tried out various types of photography, including macro, low light, high key, street, etc. But I keep coming back to landscape and architecture whenever I get a chance to get out of suburbia. With the advent of the COVID pandemic and resulting stay at home orders, I've started to try photographing the birds visiting my bird feeders that are visible outside my front window, as well as catching shots of my friends' cats. I've been far more successful capturing feline shots than I have been catching good avian images.



Berni C

I'm Berni C from near Dayton, OH, looking forward to learning from fellow forum members, and getting to know you! I'm new to UH, but I've been taking snapshots ever since my grandmother let me take photos with her Kodak instamatic camera at Rehobeth Beach when I was about 9 years old, half a century ago. I still remember asking her how Kodak got the 3"x5" prints out of the 136 plastic film cartridge.... LOL! As a teenager, I used my mother's Polaroid Land Camera, and a variety of inexpensive instamatic film cameras (including the Kodak disk model) to take my pictures but they really weren't anything special other than being of sentimental value to me.

It wasn't until I was enlisted in the Navy and had saved up enough for a Minolta A-1 that I even thought about photographing things other than birthday parties and family vacations. Being stationed overseas filled my albums with architectural and landscape photos of the places I visited. And then I married and began a family and it was back to snapshots again for a long time.

About 15 years ago I got my first digital SLR - a Canon Rebel Ti1 - and started reading photography How-to books and websites, and began to slowly learn to do more than just point and shoot with it on Auto. Eventually, one of my sons expressed an interest in photography and I took the opportunity to upgrade to a Ti5 while he took over the Ti1. He is autistic and is obsessed by trains, so most of his images are from the trainspotting excursions our family takes. I've been learning Lightroom and Photoshop post processing over the last few years, and I am always on the lookout for ways to improve my photography skills and my post processing skills.

Over the years, I've tried out various types of photography, including macro, low light, high key, street, etc. But I keep coming back to landscape and architecture whenever I get a chance to get out of suburbia. With the advent of the COVID pandemic and resulting stay at home orders, I've started to try photographing the birds visiting my bird feeders that are visible outside my front window, as well as catching shots of my friends' cats. I've been far more successful capturing feline shots than I have been catching good avian images.



Berni C