How I got started as a photographer

By Internet Photojournalist John Myers

I bought my first camera when I was 13. The year was 1961 and I was making the grand sum of 50 cents an hour in my first job, curb hop for a local restaurant. (If you don't know what a curb hop is, you obviously aren't old enough to remember the '60s.)

I saved my money and when school was back in that fall, I sent most of my summer's hard-earned wages, $90, off to a mail-order camera company for a Yashica Lynx 35mm rangefinder.

I was in hog heaven when I got my first roll of slides back and fell in love then and there with photography. The love affair continues many Nikons later.

If you have a version 4 or better browser, Netscape or Ms. I.E., you will see a rotating slide show at right, which is a sampler of a few the full-size images in the photo essays below.

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Poem and photo essay: A Fisherman's Prayer
Photos from North Carolina and South Carolina beaches in January.
Take a spring walking tour of Palm Beach Island and West Palm Beach, Florida.
Magical August morning at sunrise on Surfside Beach in South Carolina.
Sunrises and sunsets from Southport, NC; Bahrain Island, Persian Gulf; and Bombay, India.
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