At 09:27 PM 10/21/01 -0400, you wrote: >When I first started shooting film some 25 years ago, I encountered a >guardian angel. He had a camera store in the Old Chicago neighborhood >west of Comiskey Park. The neighborhood was, and still is so far as I >know, called Bridgeport. This guy told me that if I ever hoped to be a >halfway decent photographer, I had to shoot one roll of film per day. >Then he sold me a bunch of darkroom equipment at below his cost, pushed >a bunch of film across the counter, and said, "go take pictures." For >years, he continued to subsidize my efforts, and I shot at least one >roll of film every day. I don't know if I'm a good photographer, but I'm >a lot better than I would have been if I had not burned all that film.
I think I know the place. It was around 33rd & Halsted. I majored in photography at IIT for a semester and we went there to buy our film and other supplies. Gary J. Sibio - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
