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Originally Posted by Porsche-poor
Morning all. I need a new life outside of CAD.
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I hear you are great at moving crap in and out of storage.
I certainly understand I have been lucky. I have done for a profession what millions of people do as a hobby.
At the car show the couple I sat next to the wife had a camera bag full of camera gear. I asked if she was a pro or an hobbyist. She said she was an artist! She had worked for a local professional photographer as an intern, but that did not pay much at all, so she is a nurse as a real job.
I told her I have only worked in the photographic industry since I was 14 and that is all I have ever done, beside mow laws as a kid. They had a really nice almost all original 1972 914 and he still did not know much about them. I said I ordered a 1974 914 2.0 when I was 19. She said and you made the money as a photographer? Yep, I was working full time at a photo place as a press and commercial photographer, I shot wedding all spring, and football films for coaches in the football season. I was working constantly, and had the money to make the payments.
My good luck in a career was fantastic when just as digital was killing commercial photography, I jumped into aerial photography with an established company.
Now we have an aerial camera system that all fits into a pelican case, and will fit in carry on luggage that shoots a better image than the $495,000 state of the art 9x9 film camera we had at the company where I worked.
The Canon 5DSR oblique camera we have is far superior to a film camera we used that shot a 2.25 x 2.75 chunk of film and only 10 exposures per roll of film. Now we can shoot 600 images and not think twice about it, it just data.