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Lou Parker
Photography Enthusiast.
Animal & Nature Lover.
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Photography has been a life-long passion for me for over 50 years, starting with a Brownie Hawkeye that my parents gave me for my 10th birthday—they probably wish they had bought me something else because it would take us forever to drive anyplace as I constantly made my Dad stop the car so I could take a picture of anything that caught my eye. I got really serious about photography in high school where I was the head photographer for both my high school’s weekly newspaper and yearbook, using a 4x5 press camera, and in college where I was photo editor for the University of Oregon Daily Emerald with a weekly photo spread called "Pictorially Speaking" plus being responsible for day-to-day photos and supervising a 3-man photo staff. I was also a photographer for "The Teke," my fraternity’s national magazine, using both the 4x5 and my first 35mm camera (don’t remember what brand). In high school and college, I also did some exhibition and a little commercial photography (mostly weddings -- just did my son's wedding in New Orleans) to help pay for my “habit.” During law school I continued my photo journalistic endeavors for the school’s monthly news magazine, and then when I went on active duty in the U.S. Army JAG Corps as a lawyer I won several photo contests and got hooked on Pentax SLRs when I bought my first Spotmatic (actually I bought 2) and several Takumar lenses (28mm, 55mm, 105mm, 200mm and 400mm with the old screw mounts) while stationed in Europe to document my travels during the 4 years I was there, including Germany, Scandinavia, Great Britain, Holland, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Spain, Yugoslavia, Greece and North Africa. After leaving the Army, I took a few years off from practicing law and owned a printing and graphics business in which I was able to put my photographic experience to good use. After that I continued doing a lot of travel, landscape, sports and family photography when I have been able to take the time out from my legal work. I moved up from the Spotmatics to a Pentax SF1n SLR with a Pentax 35-135mm zoom, then to a ZX-5n SLR with a 28-300mm Tamron zoom. I finally gave up using film (Kodachrome, Fuji Reala, and Kodak Ektar and Ultra Pro) and migrated to digital with an *ist DL SLR, which I upgraded to a K10D, that I use my Pentax 18-250 zoom on and even occasionally my old 300mm screw mount Takumar with a K-mount adapter.
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