Throwback

So the other day I was looking through my blog to see how far I’d come over the past 13 months.  I thought that I’d improved, but I wasn’t quite sure how to directly show it.  With the exception of sports, which I didn’t shoot that much until last year, I couldn’t think of a way to show how I’ve improved in my time at UGA (which is quickly coming to a close).

Then it hit me.  There was in fact one thing that I had shot every year since I came to the University.  The Demosthenian All Night Meeting, which I posted about here, was something I could actually directly compare.  So, I dug through my archives and came up with one photo per year to illustrate how I use to shoot versus how I shoot now.

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The other day I did a mass reorganization of all the photos I’ve ever taken that I had on my computer digital or scans of 35 mm. After I was finished, I rediscovered a lot of photos I had taken from the very beginning so I think every once-in-awhile I will post one here.In the Fall of 2001 my brother started attending The University of Georgia, and it was right around this time that I had started experimenting with photography. My family came up to visit him for a family weekend, I think, and I went walking around downtown by myself for a bit.

At the time I didn’t realize this scene was a fairly common occurrence. At this point I don’t think I really even knew how to work the camera even though the Canon A1 I shot it with was completely manual. I knew it all had to do with light so I pretty much guessed the exposure since I didn’t know how to use the light meter built into the camera.

Anyways, this was the first photo I ever had published. It was printed in Centennial High School’s literary magazine “Avalon.”