Home: Trinidad, Colorado

Stats:
- Amateur Photographer (just having fun)
- Manager of Information Technology and web site developer for The First National Bank in Trinidad.

History: Interest in photography started in childhood with a 110 camera then on to his father's Minolta 35mm SLR camera.  Excelled in photography (darkroom) classes at Trinidad State Junior College.

Photo interests: Outdoor action, landscapes, extreme lighting environments, low-light long exposure.

Recent photo projects:
- 2000 AMA Super Bike racing at PPIR
- 7th annual Big Bird Fly-in  (Ft. Collins, Colorado)

Dream photo coverage: Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy), Tour de France and Leige-Bastone-Leige (Belgium) bicycle races.  

Photography runs in the family:
Grandfather shot black&white film.
Dad has minor interest in photography and got me started as a kid.
My brother worked for a custom photo lab in his early adult life.
Mom is a photo lab technician and department manager of cameras at our Wal-Mart Supercenter.

Photography Resource:
[ Photography Links Page ]
Originally put together for my own reference.  It is a cherry-picked list of links arranged to be easy to find what you are looking for.

Thanks:
To Dad for teaching me about photography at a very young age.

To Vic Macaluso for making sure I remember that photography is about having fun.

Copyright © 2000 R. Michael Babnick. All rights reserved.

Me again, standing where my folks
eventually built a house.

Thanks to Lori Baca for running the shutter and flash!
About: Shot around midnight with an old Canon, F8, Kodak T-Max 400 and 4 second exposure.  Flash was set off at opening of the shutter, I swung the bat with the lit sparkler attached, and the shutter was closed at the end of my swing.