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My Journey Begins
My first memorable encounter with photographic lighting happened when I was a teenager. Fascinated by light and the element of time as it relates to photography, I successfully recreated a Harold (doc) Edgerton style image of a hammer crushing a light bulb, using a hot shoe flash trigged to a pressure switch in a darkened room.

Like many before me, the curious interplay of light and time has been of particular interest. In 1850, William Henry Fox Talbot gave life to this concept by capturing an image of newsprint fixed onto a rotating disc in a darkened room using an electric spark powered by energy stored in an array of Leyden jars an early form of storage capacitor technology. This experiment was the first documented use of electronic flash for photography. Little did I know that my early interest in flash would eventually lead to a chance encounter with the work of Mr. Talbot.

A Legacy of Light
From its inception, photography has ultimately been...

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