Okay, I am not new to the PDML; just came back around after a time away. I have found the discussion lively, interesting, sometimes offensive, but always challenging and informative. I have learned things here I would never have learned elsewhere so easily and completely. My questions are answered by knowledgeable and experienced photographers who care whether I have the information I need to achieve my photographic objectives. My hat is off to all of you for putting in your two cents worth.
I want to have a chance to get to know just a little more about those of you whose names I see day in and day out as I read your emails and hear your thoughts and opinions. I have seen your images and knowing the emotional and artistic side of photography I know that each of you has shared a piece of yourself in sharing your art. I would like to ask something and please try ever so much to leave humility aside for a brief moment and talk about your current vocation and your involvement in photography. Are you a photographer by trade or do you have another vocation and what kind of photography are you into and why? Perhaps mention where you live. I will (of course) begin for everyone. I am a software systems engineer by trade for a software firm in New Jersey. But I live just outside of Kansas City, Missouri. Photography has been a long time hobby of mine as with most of us. I have shot pictures for a local newspaper in Florida, a women's magazine, and three wedding photographers. I am currently working part-time as a wedding photographer here in this area and hope to go full time with the new career within a year. I know some don't think much of wedding photographers (like shooting fish in a bowl I've heard), but I love capturing emotion on film and making other people happy with the images I produce. I shoot mostly photojournalistic wedding coverage and love other kinds of photography as well to broaden my horizons and stretch my artistic wings. So now everyone, please, tell me about you.....! Glen O'Neal profiles.yahoo.com/glen_oneal
