User:CDHolling92/sandbox

Summary This is a sandbox article for the new Indiana School of Nursing Center for Professional Development and Lifelong Learning’s Social Media course. Jan, the course instructor, asked us to write on a topic about which we were passionate. I selected photography.

Camera in Hand
I have had a camera close at hand nearly as long as I can remember. I think it probably has to do with the fact that my Grandad was an amateur photographer and never went anywhere without his. There are an uncountable number of me as an infant and child. Many of these are quite amusing since he also did his own darkroom work; therefore, I have multiple heads or two sets of eyes in addition to the charming little girl pictures. I have never had an inclination for monetary results of my pictures, but for my own and others enjoyment. I have a photograph printed in the 2000 International Library of Photographers anthology, one used for the 2007 Association for Gerontology in Higher Education calendar, and most recently had an image in the IU School of Medicine juried art exhibition in 2011.

I have received peer recognitions for (Reflections) and  (Soaring). I chased this dragonfly all over a field before he held still. I love my backyard and enjoy watching a female pileated woodpecker at the feeder and the squirrels

It took me a long time to forgo my trusty film camera, but when the film speed I always used became harder and harder to locate, I finally bought my first digital camera. I took both on a vacation thinking I would practice some with the digital and shoot the rest of the vacation with my regular camera; however, once I picked up the digital I've never looked back. I rely on a Canon EOS Rebel T31. I'm looking forward to attending Scott Kelby's Shoot Like a Pro Seminar Tour in August since it is in Indianapolis.