Each year on April 8th, National Zoo Lovers Day encourages us to explore our local zoos.

I’ve often said, and I think it’s worth repeating that Zion National Park is one of the best places that I’ve found, so far anyway, to make infrared photographs.

One of the young men I didn’t know introduced himself to me. He was extremely handsome, dressed like “a photographer” with impeccably coiffed hair and asked me, “what do you photograph?”

Before some of the events that have been mentioned in some of the other posts in this series, something happened that changed my life forever; I got cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, a type of lymphoma, which is a blood cancer that starts in the lymphatic system.

he first SLR I owned was a Minolta a SR-1. It was the model the company offered before going to TTL metering with the SRT-101. The SR-1 had an external light meter that clipped over the shutter speed dial. It worked surprisingly well.