Pond Edge With Frozen Stem - 1977
This was my first published photo. I am not counting the high school football photo I took in 1965 that got into our local paper; this was different. It was a co-winner in a monthly magazine photo contest (Photo Canada magazine, long gone). And I was paid for it ($30). My first three photo submissions to magazines were published; I thought I was hot stuff. Then the rejections began coming back and I realized this was going to be tougher than I'd expected.
Forty years and a couple thousand published photos later, the ego boost of seeing my name in print is gone, but every accepted photo is nevertheless an affirmation. I have photos for a story (written by my friend Judith Wright) coming out in Prairies North magazine in December, including the cover shot. Always nice to get a cover!
This old photo... I would probably shoot it a little differently today, but still, I think it holds up. Hundreds of tiny bubbles and the stem of a maple leaf frozen in ice. The camera was a Pentax Spotmatic, the lens a 100 mm macro. (Note: not 105 mm. Pentax had to be different. They were also making screw mount bodies and lenses when nearly every other camera designer had gone over to bayonet.)
Photographed at Drum Lakes, near Gold River, Vancouver Island, BC (Canada). Scanned from the original Tri-X negative (ISO 400). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 1977 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Pond Edge With Frozen Stem - 1977
This was my first published photo. I am not counting the high school football photo I took in 1965 that got into our local paper; this was different. It was a co-winner in a monthly magazine photo contest (Photo Canada magazine, long gone). And I was paid for it ($30). My first three photo submissions to magazines were published; I thought I was hot stuff. Then the rejections began coming back and I realized this was going to be tougher than I'd expected.
Forty years and a couple thousand published photos later, the ego boost of seeing my name in print is gone, but every accepted photo is nevertheless an affirmation. I have photos for a story (written by my friend Judith Wright) coming out in Prairies North magazine in December, including the cover shot. Always nice to get a cover!
This old photo... I would probably shoot it a little differently today, but still, I think it holds up. Hundreds of tiny bubbles and the stem of a maple leaf frozen in ice. The camera was a Pentax Spotmatic, the lens a 100 mm macro. (Note: not 105 mm. Pentax had to be different. They were also making screw mount bodies and lenses when nearly every other camera designer had gone over to bayonet.)
Photographed at Drum Lakes, near Gold River, Vancouver Island, BC (Canada). Scanned from the original Tri-X negative (ISO 400). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 1977 James R. Page - all rights reserved.