Number 1: In 1955 my dad bought me a 620 Kodak Hawkeye camera, a Kodak development tank, and a bunch of "Tri-Chem" packages. We developed the fim in our bathroom and printed out the results on Kodak "Print out Paper" when we turned on the light. Number 2: In 1960 my dad bought me a Yashika TLR and a dozen rolls of film. I had my own bath/darkroom. I learned how to capture images in availavble darkness using Tri-X. I had yet to develop an eye for anything resembling anything other whaterver I was seeing. When I look at what I have left those images, I don't recognize them as being mine. Number 3: In 1971 Dennis Pett at Indiana University asked me to teach a class in photography to a bunch of first year grad students. Since I had absolutely no idea how to teach anything other than than details and lab stuff, I told them to buy a cheap Kodak Instamatic snapshot camera and go out and take pictures of what they saw. What they saw was so much better than what I had ever seen and captured that I stopped teaching and went back to research in educational technology until the Army recalled me a couple of years later. Bill -----Original Message----- >From: Mark Blackwell <mblackwell1958@xxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Jul 13, 2007 11:21 AM >To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Top 3 things that taught you the most about photography > >Well I am always interested in how people learn. Id be interested hearing what others thought were the top 3 things that taught them the most about photography?? > > >--------------------------------- >Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. > Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games.
