About Me
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Photography is something that has interested me from a young age. I would always play around with a small digital camera, and try and be "artsy". I took a film photography class in high school that really opened my eyes to the world of photography. I finally purchased my first DSLR in my first year of university and haven't looked back.
I specialize in landscape, wildlife, equestrian, sport, macro and artistic photography, as well as wedding photography.
I also edit my own photos, as can be seen in various pictures throughout my albums. I also create layouts and other various edits using photo manipulation. Examples of these can be viewed on my Edits page. I have photographed various events in the community in London and the surrounding area.
I named my site "Kamara Obscura" after the original camera, or pinhole camera that was discovered by many notable people including Aristotle, Alhazen, Mo-Ti and Da Vinci. Camera Obscura translated from Latin means "dark room." I chose to change the "C" to a "K" in true Greek and Latin style, in which the letter "C" does not exist in the Greek alphabet, and is interchangeable with 'K" in Latin. The Greek "K", Kappa, came right from the Semitic languages, unchanged into Greek, and passed into Latin and English for the "k" sound.
"Kamara" also seemed to flow/look better than "Kamera."
Thus, as you can see, Classical studies is another of my passions, and I hope to one day travel to Greece and Rome to photograph ruins and other amazing sites. I am minoring in CS at UWO. How this all ties in to photography? Well, this original pinhole camera, camera obscura, as mentioned above, was quite a remarkable invention, especially at that time. Aristotle and many other ancients from various countries, all discovered that light would travel in a straight line. Aristotle, a Greek philosopher (384-322 BC) understood the optical principle of the pinhole camera. He viewed the crescent shape of a partially eclipsed sun projected on the ground through the holes in a sieve, and the gaps between leaves of a tree.
A pinhole camera works by light being projected through a very small hole, into a dark room/box, and the outside image being projected, upside down onto the opposing surface.
"Go into a very dark room on a bright day. Make a small hole in a window cover and look at the opposite wall. There in full colour and movement will be the world outside the window, upside down. This is explained by a simple law of the physical world. Light travels in a straight line and when some of the rays reflected from a bright subject pass through a small hole in thin material they do not scatter but cross and reform as an upside down image on a flat surface held parallel to the hole..." Hence why there are mirrors in cameras, to flip the image upside right.
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Jordan
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