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This page is all about Mike, the webmaster and photographer.
Coming to this page either means you want to know a little about me, or you just want something to read.
My name is Mike. My age, well, if you know how to add and subtract I'll let you figure it out. I was born in 1963. If you can't figure it out, you don't need to know.
I got started in photography many many years ago, (1977), when my parents gave me my first real camera for my birthday. My first camera was a Praktica LB2, the first real camera I had that did more than just point and shoot. Those simple point and shoot cameras are nice for some things, like quick picture taking, but it was so much different having full control over my pictures, and even being able to use "real" lenses.
Anyway, I learned a lot from that film. I found out I need to practice,
For the next several years, photography was my life, but I eventually settled back down and started going out without my camera now and then. In the early 1990's I had to take down my darkroom due to finances, and soon after that I even had to sell my cameras.
After getting the basic layout of this site finished and putting up the front page, my hosting business started getting more active, then other things came up, and before I knew it, close to a year had gone by. I then got this page "about me" put up, but once again couldn't find the time to do any more work here. Over the next few years I kept finding "a bit of time" to do some work here, but not much. I have the whole site in my head. All I need is an electronic helmet to transfer all the data to my computer.
Time sure flies. It's now 2012, but things have changed. For one, I've thought about being a professional photographer since before the Internet, but I kept putting that idea on hold. February 2012 I decided it's time. I've done a few small professional photo shoots for friends and family in the past. It's now time to go pro. It's what I really want to do and I'm not getting younger, so I can't afford to put it off any longer. I've even made the decision to go digital, now that digital SLRs can compete with film. Anyway, I have some work to do on this site, so if what you are looking for isn't here yet, you can bookmark this site to check back later, or join my mailing list and I'll email you each time I get a new section up, or make significant changes. To join my mailing list, just send an email to subscribe@daphotography.com. If you are interested in electronics, as in resistors, capacitors, schematic diagrams, and so on, check out another site of mine that is long overdue for work at electroniccircuits.net.
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By the way, if you want to know more about me, or if you have any questions about photography, feel free to email me at Mike @ daphotography.com, without the spaces of course, or use my contact form.
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Either way, here you go. 
Now I was having fun. Black and white isn't as colorful, but I was making my own prints. A year later, I decided to have much more fun. I bought some equipment, like a color enlarger, and I set up a much better darkroom, and I started doing my own color printing. Not too long after that, I decided to go all the way and do my own processing also. I followed up with a new camera, a Minolta X-700, keeping my XG-M as a backup.
Since I had lots of spare time, I ended up discovering the internet and getting into computers, and eventually digital imaging. In late fall of 2002 I had the opportunity to get my X-700 back affordably on
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