sfmilner

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Joined: Jun 2009

I have been employed as a professional visual communicator now for about…well let us just say a long, long time. The journey started with still photography during my junior year of high school.
I took a graphic arts class which introduced me to the camera, developing and the darkroom; all things a growing boy needed, besides food, a fast car and a pretty girl friend, mind you not in that order. That class put me alongside the road to finding center.
Thinking a 35mm camera is what I needed but could not afford, I settled on my father’s crummy old twin lens reflex camera. An inexpensive camera, my missing brain cells cloud the name, with a viewfinder that saw everything upside down and only three F-stops, it reluctantly became the platform for my youthful enthusiasm and woefully inexperienced beginnings with taking pictures. I sure wish that camera still hung around my neck today.

Nervously, heart pounding with anticipation, I successfully developed that first roll of 120 Tri-X film, unlocking the door that began my life long love affair with photographic expressionism. From the moment that first negative entered the enlarger and came to life under the yellowish dim glow of a safe light, my world began to change. Excitement grew when I slid white paper into trays filled with mysterious liquids and began to slowly strip silver away with gentle motions, fixing them forever in time. All these events happening in a darkroom filled with the aroma of acidic air, offering a place of security for my life-long addiction. Seeing that first image materialize in a tray of developer was a cathartic event, a realization of finding the ultimate way for my mind’s eye to communicate. I had arrived at the doorsteps of nirvana and knew it, even to this day.

Since graduating with a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from New Mexico State University, I have put food on the table with the help of those early acquired skill sets, learned from my first stumbling steps forward in photography. Throughout the years I have worked in television and video production as a Producer, Director, Photographer (Videographer), Editor and Writer, devoting the last ten years to photojournalism, television news style. Now, I am sure some purists feel that I betrayed my roots by working in the realm of motion photography; nothing could be futher from the truth. Everything I learned, formal or informal, from still photography, whether it be framing, composition, exposure or lighting was carried forth and became corner stones of the foundations for my endeavors in the electronic world of communications.

I now find the beginnings of my circle reforming at the focal plane on the nearest horizon, which is where I began the journey. This point of focus is now a new world of digital cameras, computers and electronic photographic processing that supersedes my old world beginnings of films, chemicals and darkrooms.

If anyone can help re-educate and re-tune my experiences in this new world of digital photography gear and techniques, it would be the dedicated group of artists and photographers found here at RedBubble. I hope my experiences, photographs and love of creative imaging encourages growth, imagination and joy for this community of vibrant and like-minded creatures and for others who venture here to view our works.

I shoot on a Nikon D40, with an 18-55mm lens, my only lens so far, and process on a trial version of Nikon’s Capture NX2. I still have my first and only 35mm, a Nikkormat with a 50mm f/1.4 lens, she still refuses to die. I also love the Blues, Hot Mexican food and old black and white movies, not necessarily in that order.

I believe that life is one long, sometimes bumpy and not so straight, continuous learning curve that never stops; it is the main event. It has always been the allure and draw for me. How about it, can the same be said of you? Let me know how you feel and what you think of my work and ideas, my bubble mail is always open.
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I am available for freelance, contract and event assignments. Customized photographic services and limited addition prints are available, see contact information below
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