First it was film—A Box Brownie, Instamatic, Minolta, Canon, Hasselblad, RB67, Tri-X and 6x6. Now, it’s digital—SD cards, RAW files, mirrorless, led studio lights, Lightroom, Photoshop, Instagram and Facebook.
The first image I remember making was of my brother on our family farm. I was probably eight years old at the time. I now call it an “environmental portrait” because there was a lot of landscape and not much of him.
I took the photo from so far away he was just a dot in the frame.
But when that print came back from the chemist (that’s where they were developed in those days) I was hooked. I knew I could do better. Fast forward to when I was thirteen. The first photo I ever sold was a shot of…
