THE NEW VALSETZ WEB SITE

Every body enjoys pictures, but not ever one likes taking pictures. (More on this later)

I started taking pictures in the fifties with an camera that was bought from a comic book. This camera was a simple, took black & white pictures, no flash, and maybe a grade higher than one made from a box.

I took many a pictures with that camera with a great passion. I would have to say it was one of the first point and shoot cameras. This camera had no settings at all just point, focus, & shoot.

I lost that camera somewhere after high school.

I served my time in the US Army and, I found myself in Germany. I then got the photo bug again when I found my assigned post offered photo & dark room classes.

I bought a a nice German made 35 mm camera with all the bells. I took pictures for two & 1/2 years not just b/w but color slides. A few Buddy's and my-self

would take photo trips around city's of Germany & local towns. (back to ones that don't like taking photos) For army folks I would say about one in 20 had a camera.

German folks on weekends were walkers. When out on weekends you would German family's walking all over the county side, but you saw very few cameras.

Again after getting back to the USA I again got lax taking pictures other than of family and again lost the camera.

Years after moving down to Reno, Nev. I again got into Photography. This time I went whole hog I even set up a complete dark room.

My wife started it all when she gave me a nice 35 mm camera for my birthday. I thanked her by spending 2 hours taking pictures at the Golden Gate Bridge as she set there in the car. Doris (my wife) from that day on said "she regrets giving me that camera for my birthday even today.

After buying all the lens I thought I needed, and setting up the dark room, I got into video and upgraded to developing color images in my dark room. all was fine until around 1995 then all the camera was taken from our home. I replaced the video camera with one that you could take still images from. Never got back into photo taking until around 1997 I went to Dallas, Oregon for the Valsetz Reunion I then got back into the reunions then the Valsetz web site. I have bought two new cameras since 2007, but only have used them on occasions.

Here is the news: there will be a new web site called Valsetz Stuff, I hope to have it set up as a interactive site allowing exchange photos and information between members, allow reunion and other videos I have made to be downloaded to your computer, free soft wear and other downloads for your computer, advice and how to do it instructions.

Please check in for progress of the site at valsetzmall.com



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