Wendy Thurman
New member
I am glad I found OPF- it seems to have more... substance than many of the photography-based forums out there.
I'm from the US but my work is in conflict zones and developing countries. I write this from Amman, Jordan; I am on a break from my current work in Baghdad. Before Iraq, I spent eight months in Afghanistan and before that, two years on-and-off in Iraq. I'm with an NGO so have a lot of opportunities to spend long stretches of time in interesting places.
Some time ago- before this career developed- I lived and worked several years in the Caribbean shooting film underwater; this was before the advent of accessible digital photography so almost all my work was shot on chrome film with housed Nikon SLR's. After that time, I fell out of photography and didn't shoot at all for years. I came to miss it, though, and picked up a Canon 5D which I used in and around Kabul. I'm a Nikon user at heart, so I recently sold the Canon gear to a colleague and purchased a D700.
I know very little about digital photography, but the possibilities are intriguing and I am looking forward to contributing something useful and interesting here. Given my access to places most people don't experience, I find I am more and more interested in photojournalism- documenting people and cultures. Nature and U/W work still appeal as well.
Thanks for the forum and for reading my intro-
Wendy Thurman
I'm from the US but my work is in conflict zones and developing countries. I write this from Amman, Jordan; I am on a break from my current work in Baghdad. Before Iraq, I spent eight months in Afghanistan and before that, two years on-and-off in Iraq. I'm with an NGO so have a lot of opportunities to spend long stretches of time in interesting places.
Some time ago- before this career developed- I lived and worked several years in the Caribbean shooting film underwater; this was before the advent of accessible digital photography so almost all my work was shot on chrome film with housed Nikon SLR's. After that time, I fell out of photography and didn't shoot at all for years. I came to miss it, though, and picked up a Canon 5D which I used in and around Kabul. I'm a Nikon user at heart, so I recently sold the Canon gear to a colleague and purchased a D700.
I know very little about digital photography, but the possibilities are intriguing and I am looking forward to contributing something useful and interesting here. Given my access to places most people don't experience, I find I am more and more interested in photojournalism- documenting people and cultures. Nature and U/W work still appeal as well.
Thanks for the forum and for reading my intro-
Wendy Thurman