Yes, I went into engineering more for the creative aspects of problem solving than for the calculations. As it happens, I rather like math too but I have never been a whiz. I always have to strain myself a bit /Claes
Glad to read you've stopped murdering the environment! But gee, no pocket calculators when you were young, and you still wanted to become an engineer?
As a matter of fact I found this place long before Saphira, but it would surprise nobody who knows her that she ended up here too: She is a true bookworm, just like her dad. I also know that she wanted to practice her English, and this is a very good place to do that. She is 13 now and getting pretty fluent. I already found your sky pictures, and I have to say that they are nice (particularly the one you use as album cover). You are right about the old-fashioned non-digital way: When I took up photography there were no digital cameras around. In fact, there was no digital anything. Not even a pocket calculator (I used slide rules in school). Nobody had even dreamt about digital cameras at that time. Thus, I spent countless hours in the darkroom. Rest assured that I prefer digital equipment. It is cheaper simpler, faster, cleaner, healthier and infinitely more environmentally sound. I now know that those developing fluids were pure murder on the environment. /Claes
Hey, your daughter is a LitNet member, too, that's great . I certainly don't think my dad would be cool enough I frequent the same websites I do . I finally managed to create myself one of those albums and put some sky pictures up . I guess that when you started photography, you were doing it the old-fashioned non-digital way . Which one do you prefer now?
But I am an old geezer (born 1959) By 1976 I had my flying licence, and that was when I really started taking pictures. Anyway, yes: I have definitely infected Saphira with both a photo and a reading interest /Claes
I took some pictures of the sunset yesterday, maybe I'll display them somewhere once I've uploaded them! Excuse me, 1973?!? I wasn't even born around then . And this is not me saying you're an old geezer , but just me admiring that you're still doing your old hobby . Have you infected your daughter yet?
New camera? Great When do we get to see the first results here? Thank you for the praise. I'm honestly still learning (experimenting a lot) how to take good pictures, and I have been learning for a looooooong time: Since 1973 or thereabouts, when I bought my first camera. /Claes
Ooooh, you know what, I bought myself a camera yesterday!! It was on sale, and it was blue with glitter on it, and I couldn't resist . I think it's one for children, but as far as I can judge from the camera, children these days must have quite high expectations of their gadgets... Anyway, I can't wait to try it out . The weather is horrible right now, but I hope to venture out into the open and take a few shots soon . I was meaning to ask you how long it took you to become such an excellent photographer, but now I think I'd rather not know .
I'll tell you one thing: I will not walk into a bank dressed like that I usually don't have to resort to wearing a balaclava though. It just happened to be particularly nippy that day.
Oh that's great! I would have loved that too as a kid!! Huh, the biker picture! Very cool! You look as if you were about to burgle something . But I guess that's the price you have to pay if you insist on cycling around in regions as arctic as Sweden .
