Harry H Hicklin
Profile
Howdy to all visiting this page. My name is Harry H. Hicklin, born in Hawaii, and now living in North Carolina. I am a 21-year veteran teacher and a (very) serious amateur photographer.
My father was the catalyst for my love of photography. He bought me my first camera: a 1960’s Kodak Instamatic. Of course, I burned up a great deal of film taking pictures of everything in sight, some mildly interesting, most just plain awful. After entering my teen years and observing his prowess with a classic Olympus rangefinder film camera, I asked for and got a Kowa 35mm SLR for my birthday. This cemented my passion for the 35mm format. I almost wore it out in 4 years, then sadly was forced to sell it to a pawn shop for ferry money in Alaska. Even now I still miss that Kowa shutter sound.
The camera that got me through the late 80’s and 90’s was a Minolta 35mm. Good but not great pictures. The millennium ushered in the digital era for me, starting with a Nikon Coolpix 5700, then Canon EOS 20D, and currently a Canon EOS 5D Mark 2 (I like this one very much). Needless to say, I am trying to reinvent myself with this camera, with a bit of backup help from Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2.
At the moment, traveling to new landscapes and creating new still lifes are my main photographic passions. I also enjoy challenging myself to see different angles and situations while out on location. Practice, practice, practice.
Thanks much for reading this and checking out my photographic art. You do me honor by visiting.
Groups
Harry H Hicklin is a member of "Tone It Down"! (3/day - No [EXPLETIVE] color allowed!), *Amazing Orton Effect* - Limit 3/day , 5D Mark II, A Place To Call Home, Achromatic Nature, All About Flowers, All Countries ~ Wetlands, Ponds, Lakes and Rivers, All of North Carolina, All That is Nature (Photography Only), All the Colors of the Rainbow, Around The World, Black & White Photographers Showcase, Black and White Photography, Canadian Rocky Mountains, Canon DSLR (One Image Per Day & A Canon Camera Must Be In The Description Before It's Accepted), Cee's Fun Artsy Friends (no holidays cards or snapshots please), Dawn and Dusk Light, Digital Art Compilations (No Nudity Allowed), Digital Artists United, Digital Photography, DSLR Users Only - 1/24 - Camera & Lens In Description Please., Fabulous Flowers, Falling Leaves, Grunge Photography, Human and Nature, If it doesn't belong, Landscape Photography, Layered with Texture, Light and Reflection 1/24, Made In Digital, Minimalism, Mood & Ambience - Strictly Photos, Mother Nature's Finest, Nature's Wonders, One For The Album , Panoramas 3:1 Ratio Minimum, PEACE, LOVE & TRANQUILITY, Photo Manipulators, Photography Fun, Rhododendrons, Rustic, Scenery, Shifting Sands, Shots in the Fog, Stairs and Staircases, The Male Photographer, The power of simplicity (Photography only), Timelapse/Long Exposure Photography, Toys and Puppets, War , Which Way - walkways, pathways, stairways, roadways, and railways and Your Living spaces. .
