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MontanaJay

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Long-time lurker here named Jay, finally decided to join up. I reside in Butte, Montana.
Retired after 32 years in newspapers -- mostly as a reporter and editor but always filled in photography-wise -- in Maine, Pa., South Dakota, Colorado and Montana.
I guess I'm a camera collector, of sorts, mostly equipment I used in my work but also heirlooms like my grandfather's 3A folding Brownie (and his negatives) and my dad's Rollie, which he picked up in Germany during the war. I even have the Diana I was required to use in college in Ohio in 1970 -- to put all the students on the same footing -- long before the Loma craze.
I have tens of thousands of negatives and slides from my family and my work, and a fairly good wet darkroom.
I now work part-time for a builder of super-efficient homes, which I do in digital, but I still like and admire the old way of capturing and making images.
 
welcome

I'm a former "ink-stained wretch" myself, having done a lot of photography and writing and some editing for almost a dozen newspapers, from great big to dinky. I don't collect olde cameras, I rescue them.
 
Yeah, I "rescued" a few myself, including two Speed Graphics. They were before my time, but I worked with some old-timer photogs who used to haul them around and had some good stories to tell.
 
Hello Jay up there in Butte, MT. Welcome to the photographic site of APUG....:D

One of the folks I use to drag race with is from up there in Butte. He is still racing to this day as far as I know. His name is Bob Mazzolini.
 
Welcome and go for it MJ!
 
Welcome to APUG
 
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