Nikon F1 - my first proper camera!
My name is Paul Anthony Lomax and I was born and raised in the town of Bedford which is about 50 miles north of London, England.
My grandfather handed me my first camera when I was a kid. Apparently I was running around on Brighton Beach kicking sand in the faces of 'gangsta hoods' and body builders when he stopped me in my tracks and let me loose with his Kodak "Brownie" camera!
I never picked up a camera again until after I had left London University to embark on a back-packing tour of Europe in the mid 1980's! Yeah, I miss the music, the fashion & the hairstyles too!
Then I stole, I mean happened to come across a Nikon F1, when I was taking a train to Milan, Italy! A lovely Dutch tourist left this rock of a camera on her seat after rushing to alight the train! The F1 came with a 50mm F2 lens and my love affair with photography lit up again!
Anyway to cut a long story short I taught myself all of the technical aspects of photography that I could grasp, exposure, film stock, film development and darkroom printing. The only thing I could never learn, or in my case teach myself (along with thousands of other photographers!) was composition and Bresson's "critical moment."
I'm not a smart person so let me tell you all right now that I'm not a technical photographer! I "understand" all of the fundamentals of photography but really don't talk about them! A shot is a shot - however you get it! "Hook or by crook!"
The only 'techie' info your likely to get from me is what is on the RAW file!
So in the end I ended up shooting for the newspapers and later news agencies for nearly 10 years. When I quit that industry I got into travel photography through the cruise line industry before settling down with a beautiful wife and a cat right here in NYC!
My wife Melissa with her close friend Frank in Florida!
Here's a couple of black&white pics from our recent trip to Florida!
"Umbrella Man" on a chilly 70 degree morning!
"The Night Before!"
All comments are welcome and I'm off tomorrow so maybe I'll be able to post some more entertaining material!
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My grandfather handed me my first camera when I was a kid. Apparently I was running around on Brighton Beach kicking sand in the faces of 'gangsta hoods' and body builders when he stopped me in my tracks and let me loose with his Kodak "Brownie" camera!
I never picked up a camera again until after I had left London University to embark on a back-packing tour of Europe in the mid 1980's! Yeah, I miss the music, the fashion & the hairstyles too!
Then I stole, I mean happened to come across a Nikon F1, when I was taking a train to Milan, Italy! A lovely Dutch tourist left this rock of a camera on her seat after rushing to alight the train! The F1 came with a 50mm F2 lens and my love affair with photography lit up again!
Anyway to cut a long story short I taught myself all of the technical aspects of photography that I could grasp, exposure, film stock, film development and darkroom printing. The only thing I could never learn, or in my case teach myself (along with thousands of other photographers!) was composition and Bresson's "critical moment."
I'm not a smart person so let me tell you all right now that I'm not a technical photographer! I "understand" all of the fundamentals of photography but really don't talk about them! A shot is a shot - however you get it! "Hook or by crook!"
The only 'techie' info your likely to get from me is what is on the RAW file!
So in the end I ended up shooting for the newspapers and later news agencies for nearly 10 years. When I quit that industry I got into travel photography through the cruise line industry before settling down with a beautiful wife and a cat right here in NYC!
My wife Melissa with her close friend Frank in Florida!
Here's a couple of black&white pics from our recent trip to Florida!
"Umbrella Man" on a chilly 70 degree morning!
"The Night Before!"
All comments are welcome and I'm off tomorrow so maybe I'll be able to post some more entertaining material!
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posted by Paul Anthony Lomax at 10:19 PM
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