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Some photographic quotes that inspire me:

"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man." - Edward Steichen

"We use this photochemical process to record a significant moment, to reproduce the manners and attitude of our time, to interpret our own and others' lives, to relate ourselves to a subject, and to symbolize our ideas through different motifs." - Y. Ernest Satow

"The true creator may be recognized by his ability to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note." - Igor Stravinsky

Of course, my pictures are not of the same quality as these quotes, but the quotes inspire me none the less. Perhaps the most applicable quote is:

"There was a man with tongue of wood, who essayed to sing, and in truth it was lamentable.

But there was one who heard the clip-clapper of this tongue of wood, and knew what the man wished to sing, and with that the singer was content." - Stephen Crane

I've been an amateur photographer since 1965 when I received an Ansco Cadet box camera kit as a kid.

I've used a variety of cameras, most significantly an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic 35mm film SLR that I got as a teenager and have used for over 50 years. I've developed and printed B&W, color slide, and color negative film. Now I'm learning to use digital cameras, scanning, and digital processing and printing. I'm rediscovering film as well, fixing and using old cameras and processing film (B&W and color negatives, and color slides) for scanning.

Currently using:

Digital cameras: Pentax K-70 (APS-C) and Pentax K-1 Mark II (full-frame) DSLRs and Sony Alpha a6000 mirrorless (with a variety of legacy Pentax lenses as well as the newer autofocus lenses for each camera).

- Panasonic TZ-5 travel zoom

- Pansonic DMC-FZ18 18:1 megazoom

- Canon PowerShot A60 digital (no longer have but some pics here were with this camera).

Film cameras (AF = autofocus, MF = manual focus. Most have autoexposure or at least TTL metering)

- Kodak Retina IIIC (type 028) 35mm folding camera (1957)

- Kodak Motormatic 35mm (1960), Signet 40 (1957)

- Pentax 35mm AF SLRs: MZ-S, ZX-L, PZ-1P, ZX-5N, SF1n 35mm film cameras, and the Pentax 645n medium format SLR

- Pentax 35mm MF SLRs: Super Program, K1000. Spotmatic SLR (1970)

- A variety of 35mm rangefinders: Konica, Olympus, Minolta, Kodak Retina, Canon, etc.

- Yashica Mat 124G twin lens reflex 120 roll 6x6 cm film, MF

- Polaroid Land camera, Model 100