March 2021 - Jeff Goldberg

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Like many photo club members, I’ve been taking pictures for almost as long as I can remember. My interest in photography deepened in high school, where I worked as a yearbook photographer, shot football games using a 4X5 sheet film camera, and had the run of the school’s darkroom for three years.

For a brief time in the 90s, I worked for a stock photo agency where my job was to digitize (scan) slides of the most beautiful places in the world. It hardly seemed like work.
Over the years, I’ve broadened my photo appetites to include documentary, travel, nature and abstract photography.

Last year I sold my Nikon D850 and replaced it with a Fuji X-T4 mirrorless camera (much lighter) and an iPhone 12 Pro (thank you, Bob Bearden).

Some time ago I began collecting Nikon film cameras and lenses dating from the 1950s (the Nikon S rangefinder) to 2004 (Nikon’s last film SLR camera, the F6). My home office now looks like a Nikon museum.

In 2018, my wife Catherine and I moved to Sun City and I immediately joined the photo club. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed its classes, SIG meetings and seminars, as well as the opportunity to see what others are doing and to have my photos critiqued.

I hope that we can all resume more normal lives later this year – and that Catherine and I can travel to more beautiful places.

I hope you enjoy my photos! To view my gallery, click here.