Introduction
I was first introduced to the magic of photography as a young girl when my dad handed me one of his Pentax Spotmatic cameras to use during a photography outing. He gave me a few instructions: Set the ISO to match the film you load into the camera, keep the shutter speed to at least 1/60 of a second, and then turn the dial on the lens until the little needle in the viewfinder lines up in the middle. Pretty simple, right? I set about photographing anything and everything in sight and my indulgent father handed me roll after roll of film (slide film).
After waiting a week for the film to be processed, I eagerly opened that first yellow box of slides and placed each slide on my dad’s light table, and a budding photographer was born. ...
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