This is how your name and profile photo will appear on Panoramio if you connect this Google+ account.
You cannot switch to a different account later.
Learn more.
I was initiated into the world of f. stops and shutter speeds at an early age by my father when he gave me my first camera. Until I was in Kindergarten, he developed and printed his own photos, but at that time he began using that relatively new photographic product Kodachrome because he loved the rich colour it gave, even though he disliked losing the control he had enjoyed in the darkroom. I supposed I received an informal photographic education as I watched him carefully frame his shots, and, for example, photograph tulips with the sunlight coming through them because the colour was more intense that way. ---------- In 1957 I began to use slide film, too, and a year later I received an amazing gift from a family friend: a trip to Europe, upon the occasion of my university graduation. In Germany I bought my first SLR (a Contaflex) at a time when they were fairly new on the popular market. Also on that trip, one of my travel companions gave a not entirely welcome boost to my informal photographic education: frequently when I raised my viewfinder to my eye, he would say disdainfully, "You aren't going to take a picture of THAT, are you?" Sometimes I did and sometimes I didn't, but his implied criticism raised my photographic consciousness. I realize now that I had assumed that an amateur photographer should record every sight of interest or significance whether or not this produced a good image. His comments started me along the long road of discerning what my photography was all about. Gradually over the decades I became less a reporter and more a seeker of images. ---------- At first I resisted digital photography because of my loyalty to the colours of slide film, but in 2004 I got my first digital camera. I was a quick convert to the editing that it made possible: now I could have colour AND control! ---------- Although my photographic interest and activity has gone back many decades, it was always only a minor theme in my life story. Born and educated in the United States, I moved to Canada when I married a Canadian. I have taught religious studies in colleges in the USA and Canada, worked in a church archives, and written articles and books mainly in the area of women and the church. I am now writing a biography of an interesting, feisty woman! But my husband's retirement has enabled us to travel a great deal in recent years, and this has given a great boost to my photographic interest and activity. ---------- I'm sorry this is so long. Thank you if you persisted!
Loading…
Marilyn Whiteley's conversations
Fascinating it is to see a tree 'holding' on like this , very beautiful photo, Like it , best wishes Karin
I have now joined Ipernity so I hope we can keep in contact ps: I had forgotten all about "Love lettuce straight from your heart" and it made me chuckle again.
Keith
awesome town,in Trump international hotel&tower @CHICAGO IT REMIND ME OF "PARIS"
Rock of stages
Bardzo piękne zdjęcia L+F dla wiely Twoich zdjęć. Jest mi bardzo przykro że Panoramio kończy swoją działalność. Pragnę Tobie podziękować za współprace,komentarze, piękne zdjęcia i informację przy wielu.. Dziękuję i życzę wszystkiego najlepszego. Kazimierz
Veľmi pekne ďakujem za všetok strávený čas pozeraním mojich fotiek, daním hodnotenia ako aj pozretia mojich článkov alebo videií. Veľmi si vážim toho, že mi panoramio pomohlo spoznať krásu sveta prostredníctvom úžasných ľudí a ich pohľadov na svet. Pre nedostatok času ohodnotím len 1 fotografiu z galérie Like + Favourite a keď mi zvýši ešte čas, vrátim sa pozrieť ďalšie fotky. Bolo by mi však ľúto, keby pre nedostatok času, nikto nevidel moje úsilie z päťdesiatich letných výletov - preto tu je výber toto najlepšieho z leta 2016.
S priateľským pozdravom zo Slovenska, Filip Jurovatý
Hiiiiiiii panoramio will close!!!!!!! :-( how are you? Hugs from me to you hehe
Amazing! Thanks for sharing, Adam Middlemas
Fantastic, looks medieval! Thanks for sharing, Adam Middlemas
I'm letting people know that Panoramio will be closing permanently on November 4, 2016. See the new link at the top of any Panoramio page.
My apologies if you receive this message more than once. But this time it is permanent.