Facing East from the roof of the Beverly Hills-Wilshire theater (an evening circa 1958) this is was my very first image I had recorded after receiving the gift of a camera for my birthday. Just for the fun of it, I was instructed to hold the shutter wide open for a long exposure. After having the film processed, and amazed about what was exposed, from that moment on I have been enthusiastically infatuated with photography as an art medium. That little amateurish box camera opened up a whole new life for me and I have been enjoying the art of imagery recording since.
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Thanks to George Eastman (with the Brownie) and Nicéphore Niépce (the inventer of the first permanent photoetching in 1822) I'm eternally grateful. I swiftly abandoned my trusty paintbrushes and pencils for the love of film.