MH Photography

The Journey 

 

As a teenager, I saved my pennies up and bought, what would become - possibly the most sold 35mm camera out there - the Canon AE-1.

 

The Camera and lenses were completely manual.  All was experimental for me and discovering the results required the dreaded waiting for your pictures to be developed and mailed to your home.  Back then, you didn't have the option of 1 hour photo... everything pretty much took a week for you to get your experiment back for viewing.

 

Many...many years later, I still own a replacement Canon AE-1, but it sits in the closet'  I continued my allegiance to Canon, but adopted a digital version with more bells and whistles than I know what to do with.  The new Canon does almost anything you want it to do - if you choose that route, but often I still experiment with manual modes and put "my" spin on it.  

 

Photography became an addiction for me as I began to create.  And with digital, my addiction was an immediate fix.  I can even tether it to the computer and see the results in almost real time, on a much larger screen.   So cool!   

 

There are many rules of photography and composition...and these rules are often meant to be broken.  I have no problem breaking rules! 

 

I often plan concept shoots, but as the shoot begins to devolop as it progresses and the original idea is left behind in a celebratory trail.  The new is so much more than the old - the future has so much potential.