December 28, 2005 – December 28, 2009……83 galleries & 5122 images online.
1216270 total views, 9457 comments & tons of new friends.
This is what Pbase has brought me in four years as of today.
I only started this account to host images of my Grain Elevator Images and soon found myself posting other stuff I had captured. Eighty-Three Galleries of sometimes self-inflicted projects that were sparked by a fellow Pbaser of just my wild imagination running a muk I don’t know. But your comments, feedback & questions have kept me at it. Vatorman & myself first explored the world of “Light Painting” in 2007; those first few attempts were not without some sort of trouble.
We had not seen much of it at all so we were on our own in the dark so to speak and we quickly and effectively started to produce images that no one had really seen before. The comments and encouragement came in floods. Vatorman and myself only had a few months to hone our skills until he moved out east on a job transfer.
We now were both left on our own to capture these night images. I refitted my night box and off I went, working mostly on my own into all hours of the night. For every image in that gallery I have taken over twenty more. The day light hours were spent shooting Ghost towns and old farm yards & I even started to capture old car collections…..This was a big change from shooting 30 weddings a year along with family portraits. I was always used to having a “Pro” camera in my hands, Hasselblad, Nikon F5 but could not see myself putting over 5 grand into a digital camera body, so Nikon D70 it was. This camera took very nice images but lacked the “Pro” feel and controls of the now used to F5, so only after a year I was moving up to new body the D200. The camera felt good in my hands putting the controls in places I could get used to, but the battery life just sucked, three images in the dark at -35c no good…..so on to the next body a pair of D300’s and they have turned out to be fantastic. This brings me to today…four years on Pbase and back to how I got here with an elevator image….This vator has been stripped of it’s former glory as it’s not showing the company Logo or town name at all. The company name appears only on a large sign board on the road leading to this vator. More and more of this prairie icons are removed each year and along with them the hope of small town Saskatchewan. I can only hope to save them in photographs.
Thanks to all my friends here on Pbase without you I could not go on, I may not comment as much as others but I do look at your work all the time, and hopefully 2010 will allow some more free time to comment more.
Again thanks to all and keep up the super work……….