For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated with photography. I was raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, and in those early years there were very limited resources for such things as photography. However, during my last two years in high school, I had earned enough money from occasional jobs so that I could buy an Argus C-3 35mm camera.
From these part-time jobs, I also earned my commercial pilot's license and, around 1952, I took my very first aerial picture from the cockpit of a Piper J-3 cub. As I can recall, it was a picture of downtown Pittsburgh. Nothing fancy, I just leaned out the window and snapped the shutter. (There wasn't anything automatic in those days).I used "slide" film then (Kodachrome 10). I went on to take thousands of pictures with that camera. Entering the service and during my pilot training days, there were lots of great pictures taken with the 'ol C-3. As a matter of fact, I still have that same camera, and it still works!
In 1960 I was married, and being a camera buff, I took my own wedding pictures. At that time I was a student at Penn State and money was not available for things like photography, so I loaded up the Argus C-3, took a tripod and some flashbulbs, and took my own wedding pictures. By then I was using Kodachrome 25, - a much higher speed slide film Kodak was selling at that time.
Since those early days, I have taken tens of thousands of pictures: ...weddings, celebrations, aerials, commercial, scenic's, ...and so on. Many of my pictures have been published and a few of them can be seen on the "published photo's" webpage. I suppose I will go to my grave with a camera in my hand.
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