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RE: I found that fascinating...

Posted by Green Lantern (A) on April 18, 2021 at 21:50:23

In Reply to: I found that fascinating... posted by musetap on April 18, 2021 at 12:40:14:

I'm glad this thread is slowly sinking to the bottom, I hate photos of myself lol..these are not necessarily those I've taken but are from that era, I'll have to dig in the attic for my stuff later

this is me as the OJT at my first photo dept, one of my first assignments was to follow and take pictures of the Commanding officer and Lou Rawls as he visited the active duty guys in the hospital

me at the actual biomed photo school in Bethesda, Md totally unaware and photographed by a fellow student (Rick M) who's a friend on fb

Me (below) at my first duty station after graduating as a medical photographer. The duty station was Naval hospital Oakland, Ca. Had the absolute best time of my life, the Bay area is beyond words. This was in the 90s where I would take up bike riding, the fellow behind me is Wael, he was the OJT there and the guy who would take the next photo below. We've remained friends to this day and he's visited me several times over the years (his brother lives in my community). Herb, the gentleman sitting ran the Audio/visual dept we fell under. Ponce (young guy in the back) was his assitant, Roger (tall guy in front) was the video tech, he was a hoot lol..I got there in 1990; sadly Congress shut down that hospital in 1995
as well as the Army hospital in San Fran, and pretty much ALL the bases in the bay area.

Whats crazy is I was there right after the World series Earthquake, the Rodney King riots, the OJ trial and verdict, and the devastating Oakland hills fire which at that time was the most costly in U.S. history.

Me and my buddy Wael argue about this pic all the time .. we were waiting on an award ceremony to start behind us at the O' club, I had the camera all set up and ready to go and handed it over to Wael and said "here, take my pic"...HE says since he took the pic, he gets all the credit for it LoL..that argument has lasted over 27 years :)

At this point my photo confidence was through the roof, I shot portraits of friends and neighbors in our livingroom where I had my studio set up, part of my business was 'if you couldn't come to me, I'd bring the studio to your house'. For lighting I used the old 'white lightning' 'cans' with different backgrounds.

I also shot numerous military formal balls all lined up by me by simply calling the Command master chiefs or Army and Marine SgtMajors, and say: "Sgtmaj, hi, I'm a Navy photographer here at Oaknoll Naval hospital and I was wondering if you have a in-house photographer lined up for your upcoming Marine Corps ball? from there I'd have them eating out of my hand LoL....great times, man I miss it!

Word eventually got around I was the man with the camera and I'd get at least a wedding or two a month. I used a sliding scale depending on the guy (or girl's) rank. My best was a wedding I shot in San Jose at this absolutely beautiful cathedral, it was incredible.

In fact that business card is a photo I made in my living room and superimposed the words (loooong before home computers were around).

Ok I'm done - lol

Edits: 04/18/21

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