00:11This video just introduces some of my photos that you can find at various websites on the internet.
00:19I didn't have the opportunity to take any courses in photography in my youth,
00:23but as an adolescent I did realize that the kind of camera I needed
00:27to take professional-looking photographs was called an SLR.
00:33The only SLR I could afford was the Soviet-made Zenith E,
00:37and this is what I started out with, learning by trial and error.
00:42My next camera, which I bought shortly before I began traveling, was another budget SLR,
00:48a Practico EE2, which proved to be a fabulous device.
00:54In the 1990s I progressed to a Minolta Maxim.
00:58Though still a budget camera, or entry-level SLR as such are called today,
01:03this powerful little pre-digital model took my photography to the next level.
01:08And many, if not most of the photos I have online were taken with that camera,
01:13which I still use occasionally today.
01:17My first digital SLR was another exceptional entry-level camera,
01:21an Olympus E420, which gave my photographic endeavors a whole new lease of life.
01:28My early travels were generally pretty rough, to extremely rough,
01:34and photography was rarely the first thing on my mind in the 1980s.
01:40Additionally, many of my travels were camera-less, to begin with,
01:45so I have no photographic records whatsoever of about half the places I traveled in the 1980s and 1990s.
01:54The final blow to my photographic records was delivered after living on the northeast coast of Taiwan for a few
02:00years,
02:00where I stored my positives and negatives in a drawer without a second thought.
02:06When I finally brought them out to put in order, I found that the high humidity had completely destroyed many
02:12of them, even the negatives.
02:15Nevertheless, I have tried my best to recover those that could be recovered,
02:19and have put together a travelogue of sorts on Flickr,
02:24supplemented by a few photos provided by some of the people I traveled with.
02:28Many of these, along with many more recent shots, are in the public domain, and are linked to from my
02:35own site.
02:39Thank you very much.
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