Self-introduction

["Shade of the Cottonwood, L.L.C." <cottonwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are a husband/wife writer/photographer team that dabbles in infrared.
Here are our bios, and you are welcome to visit our site to view some of
our work. http://www.cjnetworks.com/~cottonwood. If you visit, please
send us an e-mail. We like feedback. If you are using a version of
Netscape earlier than 2.0, it will crash.

BTW, I have recommended Joe=92s book =93The Art of Infrared Photography=94=
 to
several others - excellent resource!

- Name:Sally M. Snell

- Profession/Study:writer/photographer

- Country:U.S.A.

- Personal history of photography: First camera was an instamatic. After
years of begging for a real camera I got a fixed focus 35mm with a sun,
clouds and clouds in front of a sun as the only exposure meter. It took
years to recover from that initial experience. Married a guy smart
enough to understand the value in good photo equipment, so now I enjoy
taking photos that actually look like what I envisioned. The real bug
bit on a trip to Nova Scotia when I ran out of transparency film and
started shooting black and white, and even more once I shot a roll of
b/w infrared. Now I feel naked without it.

- preferred subjects:landscapes, overgrown buildings. I'm generally not
a people person

- materials (film, filters, paper, chemistry):Kodak Tmax 125 and 100,
Kodak b/w infrared. My cameras always have at least a Cokin red filter.

- format (35mm/medium format/large format): 35mm, some 4x5. I use an OM4
for my standard b/w 35mm, and an OM1 for the infrared - always loaded.

- Other strange hobbies:Make bobbin lace. This reference will probably
only be understood by the european listmembers.

- How did you find out about this list:Mike=92s late-night search on the
internet

- Other: I'm a bit of a gear-head, and wrote a Panorama database to keep
an inventory of our entire photo collection, cross-referenced to
publishers and maintaining a history of sales.
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- Name:Michael C. Snell

- Profession/Study: Art director/designer/photographer

- Country:U.S.A.

- Personal history of photography: I come from a long line of family
photographers, and bought my first 35mm when I was 11 (a Fujica ST701 -
remember screw mounts?). Worked my way through college photographing and
researching historic bridges for the Kansas State Historical Society.
Now I concentrate mostly on scenics and architecture and have a large
stock library of Kansas and Great Plains photography that I sell to
Travel and Tourism and publishers.

- preferred subjects: Landscape, architecture and abandoned things

- materials (film, filters, paper, chemistry):Mostly Fuji Velvia, with
some Kodak transparency and infrared thrown in. I use very few filters
other than the occasional graduated neutral density. I like manual
equipment and generally stay away from auto-focus, etc.

- format (35mm/medium format/large format): All of the above, and wish I
had a panoramic. I use an Olympus OM4 mostly (love the spot meter), have
a Kowa 6 medium format, and a clunky Omegaview 4x5 that I pretend is a
field camera.

- Other strange hobbies: Restoring old houses

- How did you find out about this list: Found it off of a search engine,
I think.

-Sally & Michael Snell
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Shade of the Cottonwood, L.L.C.
cottonwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.cjnetworks.com/~cottonwood

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