relocating photos on certain pages
photos will have their own dedicated gallery section at the bottom of pages
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@ -11,15 +11,20 @@ the camera belonged to my mom. it was a Pentax K1000. the camera was helpful in
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early favorite photograph subjects of mine were, my pet rabbit, sunsets, and flowers. my pet rabbit was always around, and he would also be one of the first subjects i tried with black and white film. the black and white film made his white fur so vibrant. sunsets were another favorite as i had a location available to me the was a hill overlooking a highway. this allowed for great portraits of the sunset as the day was coming to a close. my mom was an avid gardener, and always had new flowers growing. this allowed me to try macro photography, and get very close up beautiful pictures of flowers
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### camera equipment
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i had a few 35mm SLR cameras. I used my mom's Pentax K1000, but i would eventually buy myself a second hand Nikon F2A camera. this was a very professional camera at the time. it had things like interchangeable viewfinders and focusing screens. my main 35mm SLR that i would use was a nikon N80 that my mom got me for christmas one year. it was more modern and offered automatic film advance and autofocus, but could be turned to all manual if you wanted that. i would eventually get a digital SLR when the prices came down, and took a fair amount of photos with it. unknown to me however was that i was undiagnosed with ADHD, and like many fixations in my life, i would drop photography like a rock with suddenly no interest after a few years of heavy interest and needing to know everything about it
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### photography gallery
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#### digital photos
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#### 35mm photos
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### camera equipment
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i had a few 35mm SLR cameras. I used my mom's Pentax K1000, but i would eventually buy myself a second hand Nikon F2A camera. this was a very professional camera at the time. it had things like interchangeable viewfinders and focusing screens. my main 35mm SLR that i would use was a nikon N80 that my mom got me for christmas one year. it was more modern and offered automatic film advance and autofocus, but could be turned to all manual if you wanted that. i would eventually get a digital SLR when the prices came down, and took a fair amount of photos with it. unknown to me however was that i was undiagnosed with ADHD, and like many fixations in my life, i would drop photography like a rock with suddenly no interest after a few years of heavy interest and needing to know everything about it
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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@ as i grew older i became aware it was possible to build your own computer, so du
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as i was nearing the end of highschool, that all important question started getting asked. what's next? what do i want to do for the rest of my life? when i graduated in 2009, it was pretty apparent the american dream was dead. i saw what happened to my mom and people she worked with during the financial recession. but when you're 18 you still have an absurd feeling of invincibility, that it might somehow be different for you. my time in the field of tech wasn't all that remarkable, and really what i learned was that i should've never did something i loved for a job. my full time career was cut short at the advice of my doctor, though i may be able to work part time in the future. there are part time tech projects that pop up from time to time in my city. usually nothing fancy. something like a company that hasn't learned how to automate windows installs and needs to panic install a bunch of new copies of windows. but i think doing that part time i could live with. i feel a lot different about myself and work than i used to. sometimes i'm just happy i made it through my full time career alive. 'cause yeah, it got that bad at points
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a powerbook 165c that i won on a whim in an eBay auction. i'm not much into holding onto vintage tech. but could not pass up what appeared to be a relatively untouched laptop from the early 1990s. the system works completed. it booted to Mac OS 7 with applications installed that suggested it sat on a teacher's desk for most of the time it was used. other than a dead battery it was fine. i attempted to reinstall Mac OS 7 with the included recovery media, but a few of the disks were bad. i will get around to making some at some point and exploring this thing more
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### still in love after it all
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for the very double edged sword tech has been in my life, it is still a love of mine. i find it both a blend of art and science. circuit boards resemble well laid out cities. the beautiful websites you browse express themselves though code. there's always another question you can ask, and you can dive as deep as you want to find the answer. i think because of that, part of me will always love tech, both professionally and personally
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### tech gallery
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a powerbook 165c that i won on a whim from an eBay auction. i am not a big retro tech collector but couldn't pass up this relatively untouched laptop. once i get Mac OS 7 installed it will be all set!
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the first animal i really took to as a child was a pet rabbit. as any child would i named him whiskers. whiskers was a dwarf, so a smaller rabbit. he was quite friendly, and loved to run around the house. he loved salt licks and these yogurt drops we had found for rodents. he was content with pellet food but would never turn down a treat! i had read early on that rabbits live longer when they are in an environment that is low stress. i was determined to make sure whiskers had this. i looked after him as best as any child can, being sure to play with him and give him plenty of pets. we had managed to litter train whiskers, so that when he was out of his living area he would use a small litter box made for rodents if he needed to. at the time, my grandma was still alive, and whiskers was always curious about her. always stopping to say hello at the couch she would often sit at watching tv. whiskers would live to be 9 years old! i had certainly lived up to my promise of giving him a good life. i would say goodbye to him at the age of 18, and i cried like any person who loved their animal. it was time to say goodbye to him and i just could feel all the memories that we shared together. i sometimes wonder if i'll see all my pets again one day. it is a nice thought i like to keep around when ever i worry about what is next after life. seeing all my pets again would mean so much
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### the love language of birds
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at one point we had two parakeets. this is where my love of knowledge would really combine with my love of animals. i was buying every book i could about parakeets. learning all about them. i played with them, learned how to handle them, how to care for them. they were wonderful little birds. each with their own wonderful personality. they often liked to chase each other on the floor playing what seemed to be a game of tag. i remember my grandma quite enjoyed watching them chase each other around. we promised her we'd keep their wings clipped as she had memories of a child of a rather troublemaker type bird a family member had the flew around the house. but she loved these two, and so did my mom and i. parakeets don't live forever though, and it would be time eventually to say goodbye to them as well. this was a unique experience for me. the two of them rewarded every effort to grow closer to them with love and new sides of their personality would appear as a result
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### ever loving, ever goofy, puppy dogs
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my mom found herself wanting a dog when i was a teenager. she researched for quite some time and found her self interest in the west highland white terrier, or the westie, as they are sometimes called. she had purchased a westie from the pet store, unknown to her at the time this place was mistreating the animals it was raising and breeding. so their is some good in this pup coming home with us, even if it gave money to a store that thankfully was later caught and made to give up selling animals because of this. she was much smaller than her breed would suggest, but she was full of love. we named her montana. i had a **very** nerdy habit of naming pets after codenames for apple computers. i don't remember which one was codename montana, i just know this is why the dog is named montana
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my mom decided one westie was not enough. knowing that purchasing from a pet store was not a good idea, she contacted a breeder and picked a second pup. he was a goofball, not real smart but rambo was full of love and so much joy. i have never seen a being that was truly happy every day like rambo was. every day was the best day yet for him. the satisfaction of being a dog was not lost on him, he showed his joy and love in every way
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### love on four paws
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the final pet i want to talk about is my current pet. his name is baxter and he is a domestic shorthair cat. he is currently 9 years old. this cat and i have formed a bond so wonderful. i worked hard to get to know him on his terms, and he has rewarded me with the love and affection only a loving pet could show. he often follows me all around the house, curious to see what i'm doing. he loves when i sit with him while he eats, often purring while crunching his food. he loves cardboard boxes, and has one in my room to sleep in while i work on the computer. he occasionally cuddles with me in bed when it is time for sleep. this is the best type of sleep for me, to have this purring, warm, loving creature laying on my chest slowly getting sleepier. sometimes he is still there in the morning, and greets me with a soft meow as i open my eyes for the day. baxter and i have been through so much together. jobs, relationships, sickness, health, ups, downs. he's been there for it all. he is my closest friend it feels like sometimes. it is so wonderful to be truly understood by this cat, and to truly understand him as well. i look forward to many more years with baxter, and i think he thinks the same
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### pet gallery
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my rabbit whiskers, sitting outside on our front porch
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my parakeet fred, who also enjoyed the outdoors but had to be kept in her cage as her wings were not clipped
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a favorite photo of rambo, who could not resist the urge to roll in fresh cut grass
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this is montana. enjoying the soft glow of the summer sun indoors
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my best bud baxter sitting in my apartment window, a favorite spot of his
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