Behind the Digital LensMusings of an Amateur Photographer

About Me

     My name is Jason and I live in  Silver Springs, FL.  I am owned by my dog Roby Lincoln, a Schnorkie – a Schnauzer/Yorkie.  I love photography, and feel a sense of peace when behind the camera lens.  Great photos or bad, each photo is a learning experience.

     My love for photography began when I was a kid when taking some photos with my grandmother’s Brownie camera.  My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 100, followed by a Kodak Ektra 12.  My first foray into 35mm cameras was a Pentax K-1000, which I used for many years, even taking a course from the New York Institute of Photography to learn how to take better photographs.  I still have that camera, but it was replaced with a ProMaster 35mm camera which is nearly identical to the Pentax K-1000; I do not have the ProMaster any longer as it was stolen from me with film inside.  I moved into digital photography in 2000, buying an Olympus D-100 1.3 megapixel camera.  It was then I fell in love with digital photography.  The next camera I bought was a Canon PowerShot Pro1 8.0 MP camera, which served me very well through around 50,000 photos or more.  My next camera was a Nikon D3000 10.2 mp digital camera, bought in October 2009.  It was my camera for quite a while.  I now own a Nikon Coolpix P950 16.0 MP Super Telephoto Zoom Digital Camera, an awesome camera.

     Photography is an attempt to capture an event, object, person, thing, landscape, etc. in a brief moment of time and hold it forever.  I have no special talents, and don’t own a special, or expensive, camera or lenses because I can not afford them, so I utilize what I have.  My camera is my special friend, one that makes me centered and more in touch with what God has given us.  I am not a professional in any sense of the word, but photography is still my passion.

     The thoughts and opinions posted here are my own and are not meant to offend anyone, nor should be taken as professional advice.

     Remember, practice makes perfect – sometimes.  But above all, amateur photography should be fun!