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I’ve pressed the big green button and this blog is now live! Being a photography portfolio I’ll try to keep posts on the topic of taking photos, but forgive me if I venture into other tangential topics. For my first post I thought it would be fun to share some of the first photos I ever took. It’s nice to pay homage to our (very) humble beginnings and I enjoyed looking back in time, taking note of what caught my eye over 20 years ago.
These first two were taken at summer camp in northern Ontario, Canada. That composition, am I right?! They were taken on a disposable FujiFilm camera and weeks later, once home, my dad took me to Costco to have them developed. This, and a handful of hot buggy summers just like it, was my only venture into film photography. I like film’s lo-fi-ness, and remember the surprise of opening an envelope of developed photos after having forgotten what it was that warranted one of 24 shots! Today though, I purely shoot digital on the FujiFilm X series so I suppose it’s kind of full circle.
Some years later I got my first digital camera, the Olympus TG-610 — of which the T stands for Tough! As such I brought it on several canoe trips in, you guessed it, northern Ontario. I get a kick out of the last one because since it clearly demonstrates why waterproofing was necessary.
I knew before this post that summer camp and canoe tripping were important parts of my youth, but I had not yet connected the dots to photography. My first cameras—disposable, film, and digital—were all christened in nature, with photos of glassy lakes and pastel sunsets and sunken canoes. I’m a long way from that now, both in years and living in New York City, but I like to think I carry some of that imagery with me today.