And another midwesterner..there must be 6 or 7 of us!!

[eclarke]

My name is Evan Clarke. I make extremely fancy pool cues for a living and have been doing photography for about 30 years off and and on. I came back to photography with a digital camera about 10 years ago to make images of my product for the web. I then bought 1 film camera and another and another and got serious a second time about photography. I have had an arsenal of digital equipment and have an arsenal of view cameras. I am an old guy and I found that I was being split up too much between digital "photography" and my view cameras and needed to make a serious choice about how I would do this. My6 father was a chemist and I was on the track to become a chemist when the money ran out for my continuing education. I worked for my dad making chemical products and over the years have been drawn into chemistry inthe pursuit of a livelihood more than once. In the last year, I have gotten rid of all the digital camera stuff and have gone to the darkroom and I am extremely happy with mixing chemistry. I am complely dedicated to film and if necessary, will do wet plate and or dry plate and have had a couple Scotches so goodbye..Evan

 

[craigclu]

From one Cheesehead to another... Welcome!

 

[Q17]

My name is Evan Clarke. I make extremely fancy pool cues for a living and have been doing photography for about 30 years off and and on. I came back to photography with a digital camera about 10 years ago to make images of my product for the web. I then bought 1 film camera and another and another and got serious a second time about photography. I have had an arsenal of digital equipment and have an arsenal of view cameras. I am an old guy and I found that I was being split up too much between digital "photography" and my view cameras and needed to make a serious choice about how I would do this. My6 father was a chemist and I was on the track to become a chemist when the money ran out for my continuing education. I worked for my dad making chemical products and over the years have been drawn into chemistry inthe pursuit of a livelihood more than once. In the last year, I have gotten rid of all the digital camera stuff and have gone to the darkroom and I am extremely happy with mixing chemistry. I am complely dedicated to film and if necessary, will do wet plate and or dry plate and have had a couple Scotches so goodbye..Evan

Hi, Evan!

I'm having a Cosmopolitain right now, so go ahead and have another Scotch on me.

Is there a connection between pool and photography? My friend that shoots film (Ramon Muxter... pic below of Cowboy Jimmy Moore) used to teach pool and spent a few years traveling the country taking pictures of famous pool players...

 

[copake_ham]

Okay, this is beginning to get a little out of hand.

I remember the ST episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles", and think we're headed there with these Midwesterners!

 

[Kino]

Welcome Evan!

Good choice on both your avenue of LF photography and your subscription to APUG!

Looks like you've been around for a while but just now introducing yourself; thanks for de-lurking!

Any other Mid-Westerners out there?

Bwa ha ha ha... "One of us, one of us, one of us..."

Frank W.

 

[Mike A]

Welcome from a flatlander in Chicago.

Mike

 

[Wigwam Jones]

I was born in Galesburg, IL; raised around the Peoria/Pekin, IL area until age 12 - then my parents moved us to Denver, CO. All my relatives still live around Morton. I guess I'm a FIB.

I lived for six years in Kenosha and Sturtevant (outside Racine) and worked in Gurnee and Northbrook, IL back in the 1990's. So I'm also a cheesehead.

Couple of years in Albuquerque, NM.

Now I'm in NC. Long, strange, trip.

 

[eclarke]

I was born in Galesburg, IL; raised around the Peoria/Pekin, IL area until age 12 - then my parents moved us to Denver, CO. All my relatives still live around Morton. I guess I'm a FIB.

I lived for six years in Kenosha and Sturtevant (outside Racine) and worked in Gurnee and Northbrook, IL back in the 1990's. So I'm also a cheesehead.

Couple of years in Albuquerque, NM.

Now I'm in NC. Long, strange, trip.

Wow, Our family farm was in Havana, Il. I was enslaved there during the summers and our house was in Quincy. My first career was in archery and I spent a lot of time around Galesburg and Pekin. My in-laws live in Statseville, NC now and we visit often...EC

 

[Claire Senft]

What is APUG's limit for midwesterner's. Well, what is the quota?

 

[epatsellis]

What is APUG's limit for midwesterner's. Well, what is the quota?

I'm not sure Claire, but for the time being, I'm in Central Illinois, so I guess that's one more.


erie

 

[Wigwam Jones]

Wow, Our family farm was in Havana, Il. I was enslaved there during the summers and our house was in Quincy. My first career was in archery and I spent a lot of time around Galesburg and Pekin. My in-laws live in Statseville, NC now and we visit often...EC

I used to detassle corn in the summertime for spending money...$1.65 per hour. Only midwesterners know what detassling corn is.

Spent the majority of my time in San Jose. Not "San Ho-Zay," but "San Joe-sss".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_Illinois

Salute!

 

[epatsellis]

not to be confused with Saint Joseph, either btw, for those of you keeping track.

erie

 

[eclarke]

I used to detassle corn in the summertime for spending money...$1.65 per hour. Only midwesterners know what detassling corn is.

Spent the majority of my time in San Jose. Not "San Ho-Zay," but "San Joe-sss".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose,_Illinois

Salute!

I am older than you are, I got to cut weeds from the beans with a corn knife and a hoe.When I was old enough to go to the farm for the summer and work we were still shucking corn by hand for $0.00 per hour. The farm was still pretty primitive, hand pumped water, outside facilities, smokehouse, icehouse, coal stove for cooking and a coal furnace and there were still working gas lights in the house..boy was I glad when they sold it..boby would I like to go back!!!..EC

 

[anyte]

Welcome aboard.

We midwesterners just keep popping up like the weeds, and I do believe there's more than 7 of us. I was born and raised in Minnesota and have never left, well not for more than a week or so anyway.

 

[BWGirl]

Welcome to APUG, Evan! We really must have some sort of get together before winter!
I'm glad you've found us!

 

[Wigwam Jones]

I am older than you are, I got to cut weeds from the beans with a corn knife and a hoe.When I was old enough to go to the farm for the summer and work we were still shucking corn by hand for $0.00 per hour. The farm was still pretty primitive, hand pumped water, outside facilities, smokehouse, icehouse, coal stove for cooking and a coal furnace and there were still working gas lights in the house..boy was I glad when they sold it..boby would I like to go back!!!..EC

I'm just on the edge of that. We had relatives who still used an 'ice box' and I remember being put to work with an ice pick at family get-togethers. We had a B&W TV and watched Ernie Kovaks on WGN out of Chicago when we could get a signal. I grew up listening to Top-40 on WLS-AM.

We had an oil furnace in Galesburg - the house caught fire because something went wrong with it. There was a hand pump that still worked in the backyard, but we had running water. The neighbors had an outhouse, but they had indoor plumbing, so it was just left over. Don's Drugstore sold penny candy, and you could fill up a small paper bag with the stuff for 10 cents. They pulled my name out of a barrel on "Romper Room" and I won a huge box of stuff from them.

I learned to drive at age 12 on a old 1963 Plymouth Valiant station wagon with a slant-six and three-on-the-tree shifter. I know what a 'Choke' knob on a car is for, and owned a car that had a starter button in the floorboard that you mashed with your foot. I have used a rug beater. And had one used on me. My dad tried to re-sharpen Gillette blue blades to save money and shot 127 roll film as a private detective, which he processed in the basement of our house. He smoked Pall Malls and drank Old Style. He had had polio and wore a 2 1/2 inch built-up heel on one shoe.

My granddad had a huge Polaroid camera and you had to rub some kind of fixer on the prints after you peeled them apart - it came in a tube and I loved the smell of the stuff. He also had an 8mm movie camera with three rotating lenses and a spring-wind drive. He had a Japanese bolt-action rifle his brother brought back from Iwo Jima, his other brother didn't come back from Guadalcanal. Grandpa designed tank parts at Caterpiller Tractor during the war and the government would not let him join up.

 

[CLAPhoto]

Any other Mid-Westerners out there?

Bwa ha ha ha... "One of us, one of us, one of us..."

Frank W.

Chicago area here.

 

[Chazzy]

I'm not sure Claire, but for the time being, I'm in Central Illinois, so I guess that's one more.


erie

Terrific. I grew up near Springfield (the REAL Springfield!).

 

[eclarke]

Terrific. I grew up near Springfield (the REAL Springfield!).

The Sangamon River started on our farm. I had a bunch of relatives from Springfield, My mom was born there and went to school there...Evan

 

[epatsellis]

I grew up in a suburb of Springfield, the real one, in Mass. .

erie