Photography has been a great hobby for me, being a soothing breath of fresh air any time I had a camera in my hands. I remember taking my camera to grammer school several times back in the late 50's ... the very late 50's!
The first camera I remember owning was a German Kodak with a collapsible bellows that my father had brought home from Germany in World War II. I borrowed a 35 mm from a photograher friend of mine to photograph the New York World's Fair in 1964. I shot everything that day ...everything! As soon as I came home I purchased a Mamiya Sekor and I think that has to be the beginning of my serious photography. That was soon followed with a complete B&W darkroom. The centerpiece of that darkroom was my Beseler 23C which was often modified by new things on the market. I purchased a cold head from Fred Picker's Zone VI studios in Vermont, and even visited him twice.
Camera's I've owned during my next years were a Zenit B (a Russian camera), Konica T3, Konica T4, Contax RTS, Contax AX (which I still own!)a Kowa Six, Kowa MM, Kowa Super 66, 2 different 4x5's, I seem to recall that one was a Wista Field View, several point and shoot digital camera (the last being a Sony 7.2 megapixel model) and finally my Canon 5D (12.8 megapixels). Currently that 5D goes every place with me.
Kristina Erin Kaye
Cranbury, NJ
I've belonged to several camera clubs in my local area ... the Millstone Valley Camera Club, the Central New Jersey Camera Club, and I'm currently a member of a new club here in Cranbury, the Cranbury Digital Camera Club. I've been a member of the Photographic Society of America for 33 years now.
It's always fun to have someone to share your shooting with and I have such a friend in Tracey, who loves to be called Gromit.
I'm a member of the Sierra Club since 1980,and became a Life Member in 2007, the founder of the Hamilton Chess Club in 1982, a Life Member of the US Chess Federation, and a Life Member of DOTRA, the New Jersey Department of Transportation's retirement association. Since retiring from the NJDOT after 33 years, I've gone back to work, part time, as the Secretary to the Rev. Anita Milne at the First Presbyterian Church of Plainsboro, NJ.