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tommyhawk13

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Hello,
My name is Tommy Pierson, I'm 40 years old, married with 3 children, and I enjoy long cloudless nights away from the city lights.

I was never that serious about photography, but I took a lot of photography classes at the University of North Florida in the early Nineties. I was lucky to have an instructor by the name of Dominick Martoreli who insited we take 4 x 5 view cameras out in the field, and shoot film in our "tiny" 35mm cameras.

I kind of let photography go after the kids were born, but a recent interest in astronomy rekindled my interest in shooting film (mostly astrophotography)despite the overwheling abundance of "experts" who keep telling me that film is dead.

I don't have an aversion to digital media, but after seeing what Tech Pan and Velvia 50 looks like in large format, It's going to be very hard to sway me away.
 

JMC1969

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Hi Tommy,

I'm glad to be the first to welcome you as we are in the same city. I also work at the last lab here in town that deals with E6 & B&W in house as well as 4x5. send me a PM sometime.

Jody
 

reellis67

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Welcome, from Central Florida. There is a small group of large format people in your area who are members here - if you are interested in the occasional group outing they are a good group of people to photograph with.

- Randy
 
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tommyhawk13

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Thanks for the warm welcome, and hooking up for a shoot sounds good. Hopefully I'll be able to come up with a lens and a suitable support for my Toyo this year.
 

papagene

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Tommy - hello and welcome to APUG from western Massachusetts.

gene
 
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