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I am 48. I have been disabled since 1988. I was in grad school for chemistry when I had a life-changing nervous breakdown. Somewhere up at Michigan State University in the middle of my madness I had this idea in the summer of 1985 to try to get a Christian book published and to maybe become a part time greeting card photographer. They did not have a photography program when I left the Army in 1979, so I studied something "practical".
I am a low income working class photographer. My dad was a tool and die maker from Europe and even he took photos as a hobby-family photos and home movies.Some other tradesman who I knew did not share my dad's level of culture-like my former father in law, a factory electrician or the handyman my landlady aunt who repairs our home for her called me "Mr. Fancy Pictures".
Over the years, I have owned a few inexpensive cameras- Yashica rangefinder in 1974, a Minolta SRT-201 in 1976, a Pentax ME Super in 1983, a Canon GII film camera and lately my digital rebel XT 350 D was really splurging for me. Photography is not a hobby reserved for the rich. I think someone called photography "Art for Everyman".
I do Christian writing, too. And I have on Amazon.com kindle books five short ebooks-APOCALYPSE!, THE ARENA, JUDGMENT OF FIRE, ANGELS, and FAITH. And Mobipocket.com offers APOCALYPSE! and THE ARENA for sale. I guess when my life was totally ruined in 1986, I turned to Jesus Christ, the Bible, faith and Christianity. Ostracized by the church, I read many Christian books to compensate for this disadvantage. My enemies must have felt that YOU MUST CRACK A FEW EGGS TO MAKE AN OMLET. Something about civil service employment in 1985.
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