DaveLamb541 Loc: Ashland, OR

Paul,

Thank you for the welcome - I look forward to being an active member

Regards

Dave

DaveLamb541 Loc: Ashland, OR

Joe,

Thank you!

Dave

DaveLamb541 Loc: Ashland, OR

Correction: 'years' (I was not here in 199!)

DaveLamb541 Loc: Ashland, OR

Hi Lami,

Thank you for the welcome.

"I am about ready to 'give up on digital' --- 20 years of less than fullfilling shooting"

I am thinking of going back to 8X10 and contact printing - my old (first) love...

Dave

DaveLamb541 Loc: Ashland, OR

Hi,

Thank you for the welcome.

I always thought my life (photographic) would have been 'better' had I attended a school like yours. The U of M was a big 'education factory' (my HS graduating class was 39).

In 1965 I applied to RISD (where Harry Callahan was teaching) I got turned down (failed the life drawing test)...so off to Ann Arbor.

Prof Davis introduced me to a young aspiring shooter: NICOLAS NIXON - he would later go on to 8X10 fame (The Brown Sisters, etc).

I learned how to master shooting and printing 8X10 contact prints and went west to Ansel's wilderness seminars.

A bad accident in 1972 set me back (in a cast for 13 months) --- and I had to reinvent myself (had a job lined up before in NYC to be the staff photographer at the NYC Botanical Garden). Went on to ge a engineering degree - and worked at Chrysler.

Now I find myself in a conundrum, after 20 years with digital ('...honey I relly tried, but were were not meant to be')... thinking of going back to 8X10.

I hope we can meetup sometime...

In the meantime tell me a bit about what you are shooting these days.

Regards,

Dave

PaulBrit Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon

Well I seem to be first up!

I have just turned 76. For many years while I was living in Devon, South-West England, I was first a salesman for IBM Office Products Division and then an entrepreneur being the first company to bring a word processing program to market; Wordcraft of the Commodore PET! (And that really dates me!) (And, my, how things have changed in the computing department since 1978!)

But Wordcraft brought me into contact with Dan Gomez in L.A., being my West coast of USA distributor, in about 1979. I sold my company in 1986. In now time at all I was in Mexico for the Christmas of 2007. I met Jean who was born in Dagenham, Essex but had been living in San Carlos, MX, for many years rescuing Mexican street dogs, spay or neutering them, and finding homes for the dogs in the USA.

We fell in love and in 2008 I left Devon and, together with my GSD, came to live in Mexico with Jean. In 2010 we moved to Arizona. with 16 dogs, and were married. In 2012 we moved to Merlin, Oregon.

Now I have always been an amateur photographer. First with a Pentax. Then after it all went digital then to a Lumix. Finally, I took a deep breath and purchased a Nikon D750 together with a long-range lens and a wide-angle lens.

It’s a super camera. But here’s the rub. I can no longer remember all the settings and have to keep reading the user guide. The camera is really powerful and has many more features than I could possibly use. But I still love it!

For my editing I use DxO PhotoLab 4 and again that has more features than I can remember how to use.

I photograph many things but my preference is landscapes. As you know, Oregon is packed full of many wonderful natural sights. From our deck we can look to the North-East and see Sexton Mountain. It is 7 miles away.

Now I am a writer. I write a blog and have self-published two non-fiction books. We are now down to 6 dogs all very beautiful and very intuitive. Jeannie and I are still very much in love. Jean was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2015. But she still remembers much more than I do.

So, what was your question? ;-)

jack schade Loc: La Pine Oregon

Welcome to the forum Dave.

Jack

DaveLamb541 Loc: Ashland, OR

Jack,

Thank you

Dave

DaveLamb541 Loc: Ashland, OR

Paul,

As a writer - thought you might appreciate this poem (written by KARL SHAPIRO):

It is winter in California, and outside
Is like the interior of a florist shop:
A chilled and moisture-laden crop
Of pink camellias lines the path; and what
Rare roses for a banquet or a bride,
So multitudinous that they seem a glut!

A line of snails crosses the golf-green lawn
From the rosebushes to the ivy bed;
An arsenic compound is distributed
For them. The gardener will rake up the shells
And leave in a corner of the patio
The little mound of empty shells, like skulls.

By noon the fog is burnt off by the sun
And the world's immensest sky opens a page
For the exercise of a future age;
Now jet planes draw straight lines, parabolas,
And x's, which the wind, before they're done,
Erases leisurely or pulls to fuzz.

It is winter in the valley of the vine.
The vineyards crucified on stakes suggest
War cemeteries, but the fruit is pressed,
The redwood vats are brimming in the shed,
And on the sidings stand tank cars of wine,
For which bright juice a billion grapes have bled.

And skiers from the snow line driving home
Descend through almond orchards, olive farms.
Fig tree and palm tree - everything that warms
The imagination of the wintertime.
If the walls were older one would think of Rome:
If the land were stonier one would think of Spain.

But this land grows the oldest living things,
Trees that were young when Pharoahs ruled the world,
Trees whose new leaves are only just unfurled.
Beautiful they are not; they oppress the heart
With gigantism and with immortal wings;
And yet one feels the sumptuousness of this dirt.

It is raining in California, a straight rain
Cleaning the heavy oranges on the bough,
Filling the gardens till the gardens flow,
Shining the olives, tiling the gleaming tile,
Waxing the dark camellia leaves more green,
Flooding the daylong valleys like the Nile.

Dave

mrtkarlin Loc: Ashland, Oregon

Hi Dave. I too live in Ashland. My wife and I are ardent birders. There are lots of opportunities for birding and photography in our area. If you’re interested in that world I have lots of collections from the Northern California and Oregon coast all the way to eastern Oregon of our local birds including Great Gray Owls and a goodly assortment of birds from a recent trip to the coast. Let me know if I can help point you in the right direction. mrtk.smugmug.com
mrtkarlin@gmail.com

jdub82 Loc: Northern California

Welcome to UHH!

PaulBrit Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon

Dave,

It is a rather tortuous poem in my mind.

But an interesting read all the same.

What drew you to it?

PaulBrit Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon

Oh your website is stupendous Marty!

mrtkarlin Loc: Ashland, Oregon

Thanks Paul

DaveLamb541 Loc: Ashland, OR

Hi,

Thanks for the welcome - I appreciate it.

I know a number of people in town who are birders - a great pastime!

The last time I was out birding was in 2009 in the Sierras with my friend Ken Briggs - he had an arsenal of Canon lenses (was shooting 5d Mk2) and a true cannon of a lens: a Canon EF 400 --- pretty amazing. GHe got some great shots of eagles.

I was along with my Fuji GSW 690 and shooting Velvia landscapes, what a contrast between cameras.

Hope we can connect sometime - I am out and about on my bicycle 4-6 times a week..

Regards,

Dave

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