Ed Overstreet

My father gave me my first camera when I was four years old, and I've been taking pictures ever since. Obviously, some of the earlier pictures aren't worth looking at except out of morbid curiosity I bought my first SLR in 1965 and have been using SLRs constantly since then. I've been playing with or around computers since 1966, almost entirely self-taught (there are advantages and some obvious disadvantages to that ). I got my first digital camera in 2000, taught myself Photoshop, and switched completely to digital cameras in 2004.

I joined my photo club in 1987 and was immediately attracted to the club's AV Group, which at that time produced "analog" shows with two Kodak projectors and a Clearlight dissolve unit. I used that equipment until 2000, when a colleague at the club created some D-HTML code that let us create digital AV running through Internet Explorer. I immediately switched to digital AV, eventually graduating to PTE in 2003. I got my first digital camera in 2000 after converting one of my analog shows to digital, deciding that life is too short to spend it scanning film slides -- I wanted a camera that would give me images that I could more immediately work with for AV.

I'm a retired federal public servant, never worked in photography and never aspired to earn any significant income in photography. I'm a proud, devoted and arguably fanatic "recreational" photographer.