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.

Surrealism was a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s and is best known for its art and writings. The surrealist’s aim was to “resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality.” To that end, artists painted what many considered to bt “unnerving, illogical scenes” with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.

Oldsmobile automobiles were first manufactured by the Olds Motor Vehicle Co. in Lansing, Michigan, a company that was founded in 1897 by Ransom E. Olds. In 1901, the company produced 635 cars, making it the first high-volume gasoline-powered automobile manufacturer.