Welcome to our Corner

New beginnings are always hard. But slowly we adapt, we change, we grow into our the experiences. In this newer chapter of our life, Jamie and I have decided to throw ourselves into photography.

 

Photography has been a passion of mine for a long time, but I always stuck to film cameras.

 

I remember being very young and “inheriting” my parent’s old manual focus camera. The thing weighed a lot, was a pain to focus but it took great pictures. Sticking black and white film in the camera gave incredible pictures too. One of the best pictures I ever took was of a sunrise landscape, and I was only about 10 years old. It stayed with me, this slightly blurry image, perfect composed and lit just right.

 

Fast-forward many years later, Jamie and I got married and started a family. Kids make excellent subjects to photograph, and fortunately, they get used to cameras quickly. I always vowed that I wouldn’t be the type of Mom who took massive amounts of photographs of the first child and barely any of the last children. It was almost a mission!

 

A few years ago, my hubby tried to convince me to go Digital, but I resisted on the principle that digital photographs just didn’t look “right”. It wasn’t until this past summer when I borrowed a friend’s DSLR to take landscape photographs that the passion came back almost feverishly. I came home, looked at Jamie and told him I wanted to buy a good digital camera. It started a whirlwind of looking for the right camera for us, choosing what features we wanted, which ones we discounted. In the end, we realized we are Nikonians. Our film camera was Nikon, and the buttons just best-placed, most understood and very familiar.

 

This is only a glimpse into our journey, but since it is still so very new to us, hopefully our friends here can follow our way into this brand new venture.

 

~Rosie