3K POST! You as a Photographer

[Lava Lamp]

Wanted a thread to commemorate my 3,000th post since the new boards started. I had to re-register at the time and lost my earlier post. So here we go... I hope it will be one that a lot of people will participate in. What is the oldest photograph you have of yourself as a photographer? This could be a self pic or one that someone else has taken of you. I think we as photographers sometimes shy away from having our pic taken. Since I'm a little older than some of you here on the PR mine may go back a little farther in time but I'm sure not actual age of when you may have started. The oldest image I could find was from 1969. I was 21 and a photographer for my college yearbook and on the sidelines at a nightime football game. Here's a photo scaned from an old B&W 5x7 that my wife found while cleaning out a spare room last week.

It's the week end so you guys should have plenty of time to dig something up. Let see your photos.

Wow. Do you still dress that well?

[Old Timer]

Only on special occasions. Kind of funny now when I think about how I roam the sidelines dressed today, but we aways dressup back then when we were shooting a game. Should have posted the full length version of this photo you would have gotten the effect with the bell bottoms and the angle high buckle boots.

[Alison]

Is this one any good? Not a very old image. I took it in November 2005 shortly after I got my Canon.
Taken using a mirror and then flipping horizontally in PS so that the Canon sign could be read correctly

I also have one of Jenny (10) looking back on the images she has taken. Giggling at some of the funny shots. She wasn't even aware I took her photograph!
She loves taking photographs and loves working in PS. Especially the selective colouring technique.

I think this is something I will make a point of doing with my children now. Taking pictures of them taking pictures. It will be nice for them to look back on. Thanks for the idea OT.

[Old Timer]

Wonderful Alison!!! These are the kind of images I was after. Thanks for playing along. That shot of Jenny is very special.

[kkraczek]

Nice shot, OT! Now you have me hunting for the only pic that I'm aware of, and it's of me the night I received my first SLR. (age 13) I've called my mom and she is hunting for it.

In the meantime, I thought I'd better save some pics of my budding photographer- this is my 12 year old on a photo trip we took a few months ago. (She's using my Digital Rebel with the macro lens )

Thanks for this great idea OT! (Sticky anyone?)

[Chunk]

Nice shot, OT! Now you have me hunting for the only pic that I'm aware of, and it's of me the night I received my first SLR. (age 13) I've called my mom and she is hunting for it.

In the meantime, I thought I'd better save some pics of my budding photographer- this is my 12 year old on a photo trip we took a few months ago. (She's using my Digital Rebel with the macro lens )

Thanks for this great idea OT! (Sticky anyone?)

Strong Family resemblance!

[Old Timer]

Great I love to see kids with serious cameras in their hands. I always gave mine one of my 35mms and said fire away. They all have cameras of their own today but don't use them nearly enough for me.

Can't wait to see a 13 year old Kristin with a camera. Hope your Mom comes up with it. In our house looking for a particular photo can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. We have 1000's of prints and slides around and very few are cataloged. Good luck to her.

[deckcadet]

Great I love to see kids with serious cameras in their hands. I always gave mine one of my 35mms and said fire away. They all have cameras of their own today but don't use them nearly enough for me.

I promise I use mine plenty! (my d200 is up to 17,000 since mid-december, D70 up to 24,000 after a year of being my only camera). I'll get up that pic of me with my Serious camera shortly. I think the D2HS+200VR should be imposing enough

I'd sticky this, only they don't let me do that stuff in this section.

(....yet...:devil::aureola: )

[Chunk]

Great I love to see kids with serious cameras in their hands. I always gave mine one of my 35mms and said fire away. They all have cameras of their own today but don't use them nearly enough for me.

My kids are the same OT, but I'm often gratified when they say' Look at that Dad, I like the way... whatever" or when they describe things they've seen because they've developed the kind of eye we have. I'll bet sometime during their lives they get some enjoyment from a camera.

[Old Timer]

I sure hope so. My oldest and youngest have been getting a kick out of taking pictures of Jack the last 14 months or so. They both have Canon P&S's. And my son David came back from Africa with some pretty good animal shots last January. I had loaned him my 80-300, to strap on the N80 we bought him for his college garduation, which helped.

[Alison]

You MUST get some pictures of them taking pictures then Chunk and OT. They will love to look back on them.

[Alison]

You MUST get some pictures of them taking pictures then Chunk and OT. They will love to look back on them.

Oops don't know what happened there, it posted twice!

[Old Timer]

I have a few I'll dig them up.

[Old Timer]

I have a few I'll dig them up.

Here are a couple I found of Sarahas a photographer. In the first she is recording Jack's first bath and in the second she is trying out her new camera at Christmas.

[Old Timer]

Maybe the second will load here. (?) Nope! Well let's try one of big sis.

[Old Timer]

Just can't believe you guys don't have any pics of yourselves as photographers. How about some of the other ideas or pictues you have of other photographers from years gone by. If you don't post some I'll be forces to post more of myself, and I know no one wants to go through that.

[Axle]

A large group of photographers, I'm up in the front on the olive drab jacket, blue jeans, and brown boots. This was taken attop a slide at an abandoned water park in Jordan Ontaro, early in June

[Old Timer]

Oh yeah that's what I'm talking about. Thanks for the post Axle.

[adina]

OK, I don't have anything of me, but I do have the first two photos that really got me excited about photography.

these are black and white film, printed at Target, scanned on a prehistoric flatbed. I was so proud of these.....

[adina]

On the prints, her cheek isn't blown out, and the contrast isn't so horrid on the second. I think I did these in Microsoft Picture It so I could email them to all our family

[Old Timer]

These are great substitutes for pictures of the phototographer herself. Some of those early successes are so important to us and our development as photographers. Thanks for sharing these successes with us Adina. I can sure see why they spured you on. Beautiful!

[Alison]

We went to our girl's Sport's Day today. And who should I capture in the bg taking pictures? My hubby
I managed to get quite the family portrait in this shot.

On your left you will see Jenny and Lisa (both wearing white hats), watching Danielle kicking the ball.
Look over to the right of the image and you will see my hubby in a grey t-shirt, taking pictures and capturing movies, with our little sony cybershot and my two little babies in the buggy beside him.

[Old Timer]

Nice going Alison. You not only got he hubby but you got a big part of the family as well.

[Old Timer]

Joy and I did a lot of photography together for several years. We would attend photo-weekends sponsored by a Louisville newpaper in the 70's and the early 80's. These aren't great because I just did some very quick dirty flatbed scans on some old Kodacolor 3 1/2 x 5's. But here are few of Joy my wife of the last 34 years as a photographer. Please don't tell her I posted these. Oh she is going to kill me for that last one. We were at a lake and the wind was really blowing hard and she borrowed a hat from a friend. Oh well maybe I'll survive this.

[swmdrayfan]

This was taken of me by someone with a disposable camera a couple of months ago. I'm not the one in the mascot costume. I'm the one in the shade, which is the way I prefer it. And no---I didn't teach him everything I don't know.