Fort Ord
Camera’s & Travel Photography
Over the years I have owned many camera’s. I have always been interested in photography and also optics and computers. An optical type machine I made in 1966, a kind of kaleidoscope projector I used at the San Francisco Fillmore Auditorium for one of Bill Graham’s famous concerts.
The solo “world trip” in 1974-5 was shot with one of the most advanced “automatic SLR’s” of its time... the Pentax ESII. Most of these old cameras are still around, but unfortunately some of the slides that were taken then have started to deteriorate. On the Rg TRAVELS site I hope to show a few early photos from each of the countries I have had the pleasure of visiting early on.
You can visit the Dates & Places for a list of people, countries, dates and comments. Travel is good ...clears ourselves of the every day at home.
Note: Working on Trips
People & Things
Belize 2008, A return visit Three of us stayed at Francis Ford Coppola’s TURTLE INN in Placencia Belize->
This site will never be finished...
The Monterey (about 10 months)
1967 Era, The Fillmore Auditorium -
San Francisco Auditorium Projector
Sweden & Russia
OTHER Rg WEB LINKS
1966 Trip to Europe and Russia
First major over seas trip 1966.
This is a site devoted to a long trip.
OLD Photos of Misc. People and Things
All sorts of photos ...snapshots really.
Kettenburg’s & Albacore Tuna Fishing.
PL50r eunion The Point Loma High
School 50th Reunion photos.
OTHER Rg WEBSITES
Historic Fort Ord Site, Monterey CA.
Rg_Somewhere (rglaze.com)
Travels ...on the road.
Data
History
My first camera was given to me, It was a Fujica range finder camera. I used it in San Francisco in 1966. Before that my folks had a Brownie Hawkeye “box camera”. Actually I’m not a great photographer, maybe not even a very good one, but I like taking pictures. This site is old & obsolete ...Some things may not work.
Photography
Somebody said “Life is drawing without an eraser.” Photography for me is trying to capture something about the life experience and presenting that experience. A “picture image” without the eraser. Back then with film it was capture the image and then print it. With digital we can do a lot more to effect the original image, we now have methods we can use to dramatically alter the image. Having this ability is a considerable responsibility for the photographer; sometimes a snapshot gets the experience best. Photography may never be “perfect” but it should remind us why we took the picture in the first place.
RG