User:Drewmyers

Drew Myers is a amature photographer specializing in nature and wildlife photos primarily from Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and Shenandoah National Park. Drew has this to say about himself:

When I was 7 years old I got a camera and a black and white art photography calendar for my birthday. I think it was Ansel Adams, but I don't remember. The camera and the calendar are long gone now as are all my negatives and prints I made with that camera, but I've been hooked on photography since.

I have an eye condition known as Keratoconus. Keratoconus is a disease that affects the cornea. (the clear part that goes over the iris) Keratoconus, or KC for short, is a thinning disorder of the cornea that causes distortion and reduced vision. I am one of the fortunate few KC sufferers who has only developed the condition in one eye, my right one. Out of my left eye with regular glasses my vision is quite good. The only treatment for KC is wearing hard contacts which are unbearably uncomfortable for me, so I have elected instead to deal with poor depth perception and almost no usable vision in my right eye instead. There are surgical options available ranging up to and including cornea transplant, but those have great risk and expense involved and there is no guarantee that any of them will help. This is one of the reasons I am so passionate about my photography, I want to preserve the experience of precious sights that I have seen so others can appreciate them as well.

Thank you to all my friends on Flickr for your support and encouragement. These last few months since I've found Flickr have been so fun and exciting.

Thanks also to my friends outside Flickr for putting up with my eccentricities, for waiting with me for the light to be just right, for listening to me grumble and complain when either the light, the camera or the wind wouldn't cooperate, and for being happy for me when I get it right.

Drew's photos can be viewed on his website or on his Flickr.com photostream.