Hi, my name is Jim and I live at the northern edge of central Maine, USA. I consider myself to be very ameture photographer at best. For me, photography started around the age of ten or eleven. I was influanced by my uncle when my older brother was getting into it himself. My uncle was a single guy who worked for the Dept. of Agraculture and traveled around the world a number of times.( I think he worked for the CIA, but Mom says no) This man took and developed thousands and thousands of pictures in his lifetime from everywhere he could travel. I can't imagine what what he could have done if he lived in the Digital Age.

Anyway, back to me, I got away from photography in my early 20's probably due to work, a family, and other things that got in the way of my hobby. I became the guy that took pictures at the family gatherings. Not a bad thing, but it got tiring soon.

Fast forward to 2005 when I bought my first digital camera. It was an HP M305. Nothng special, but affordable. It was cheaper than a Corvette, a twenty year old girl friend, and a divorce.

Today, photography consist of taking a hundred pictures(images?), going to my computer, downloading them to it, and getting rid of the ones I don't like. I still remember when 1 hour photo was for people willing to spend the money for it. Now it's not fast enough!

I still take pictures with my 35mm.(a Canon T70.) It still takes great pictures and lenses are dirt cheap on E-bay. As a matter of fact, I just bought my daughter a T70 and a bunch of lenses for about 50 bucks. I kept some of the lenses.

For those who wonder what Jilpoke is, it is a name my father gave me as a kid when I would stop to look at and/or pick things up from the ground. In this area of the country, a jilpoke is a riverdrivers term for the log that would catch up on something in the river, jam the logs in the river, and slow up the drive. Kinda fits, even today.

I hope this isn't to long winded; I get that trait from my fathers side of the family. Thank you for reading profile and visiting my part of cyberspace. Jilpoke

www.dooryard.ca/jillpoke.html

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