So, for those who are still following me from my old blog 9 Weeks of Freedom, thanks for sticking around. For the new people who have stumbled upon this blog, welcome and I hope you stick around. As you can see from my earlier posts, I started a blog to talk about my travels during my Sabbatical. I enjoyed talking about where I had gone, the photographs and so on, so I figured I'd continue blogging about my weekend adventures looking for a great shot. 9 Weeks of Freedom didn't make sense anymore, so I changed it to Shields Photography. I've actually thought about selling my photos and am working on setting up a website to do so. Why the plain name of "Shields Photography"? I guess you could say it's for sentimental reasons. My Grandpa Shields had a shoe repair shop in White Salmon, WA called "Shields Shoe Shop". Sure, I'm not starting up a repair shop, but I'm carrying on the name.
For those who don't know me, my name is Greg Shields and I have this semi-serious addiction of photography. As a kid growing up, I always wanted to get into photography. When I was around 10, my Grandma gave me a small Kodak 110 film camera which I used as much as I could, but when you're a kid and money is tight, there is only so much film/developing that you can purchase. Then in middle school I wanted to take one quarter off from Band and take the photography elective but couldn't due to the fact that I had committed to my other passion, music. My parents had purchased a trumpet for me that year with the condition that I had to stick with music, no matter what. Since I only had 1 elective in middle school, it was band. For some reason, my high school didn't have photography, which I always thought was kind of dumb.
So my photography aspirations started later in life when I purchased a Minolta 35mm SLR. Due to the fact that you're waiting days to see your results, I didn't really get serious about my photography skills. Then the promise land was in sight: Digital SLRs. Of course when DSLRs first came out, there was no way I could afford one, but Canon came out with an affordable DSLR called the Canon Rebel and I just had to have one. I bought one with the kit 18-55mm zoom. It was a great camera and took wonderful pictures. I shot with it for around a year and a half. Then Canon came out with the 20D. I started investigating the 20D and decided that it was the way to go. I wanted more control over my photos and the Digital Rebel just wasn't cutting it. I still have the Rebel though, it makes a good backup when I go on long trips.
Anyways, enough of the history and let's start looking at what's coming up. To support my photography addiction, I work for a company that sends me around the world. On this Monday, Sept 21 work is sending me to Cairo, Egypt. Yep, that's how lucky I am. I'm taking my camera gear with me and hopefully will have some time to get out there to explore and shoot some photos. So stick around, I'll be talking about my trip, posting some photos and video. I picked up the Creative Vado HD video camera to shoot some video of the locations I'm at. No, I don't plan to talk much, but hopefully I'll get some cool video to share along with my photos.
Well, I hope you guys/gals enjoy my blog and keep coming back. It's time to start packing for my trip.
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