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kombizz kashani

New member
My name is kombizz (kambiz) kashani.
I was born and brought up in Iran, a beautiful country full of history. I started taking photos at an early age of my life with a Lubitel, a Russian twin lenses camera. Most of my photos in those days were black and white. It was a very nice camera that my parents gave me when I was 15 years old.
I always loved to see images. I remember that I would spend time in the library for hours and hours looking at the different photos in Life Magazine, National Geographic and other photographic journals and books. Also I always loved nature, and the different patterns made in it. I remember because of my Entomology studies, I would spend hours in the laboratory looking into microscopes at those beautiful and perfect structures that God created in those different tiny flowers, plants, tiny nematods, animals and insects. Then after I finished university in Iran, I left to do on my M.Sc. in California, the Golden State. There I was witness to even more of the beauties that nature held in each different moments of time. I remember I was always walking and trying to absorb all the scenes in my mind and memory as well as recording them on film. I forgot to say that I received another precious gift from my parents. That was a Canon camera with a fixed lense (G-III QL17). Then after I finished my studies, I returned to Iran for work. I consider myself an artist photographer.
At present I have a lovely Minolta Dynax 7, Mamiya 7II with few lenses. I still love and adore nature and all aspects of it. As a result I love macro photography, landscape, architecture (old and new), and many other categories like artistic abstracts, travel, people, fashion, and photo journalism.
I have a vast numbers of printed photos, slides and thousands of negatives which all are archived in many folders.
I love to share my observations through my photos with those people who love and appreciate.

k o m b i z z
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
You have already gotten my attention, Kombizz!

Welcome to our community where you will find a lot of friends to share photography and experiences with. We cover a lot of interesting topics from Art to qualities of lenses to even subjects, which many fora would never entertain.

I hope you will contribute your sense of art and love for photography. I hope you have a scanner.

Hardly any camera can best the quality of Mamiya 7 lenses. Only the film can be a pain to take through customs and is bulky. Still, everyone should have at least one film camera to be in touch with they more Zen part of life.

I am returning to film is small steps. Just that I am re-exploring what I left behind.

I look forward to seeing your pictures here.

Again welcome!

Asher
 

janet Smith

pro member
Hello Kombizz

Welcome, this is a great forum, lots of very knowledgable people with interesting opinions. I'm relatively new here too, but have seen enough to know that it's a good place to be. Like you I'm interested in nature and macro photography, I got my first macro lens last week, I'm still getting used to using it, but I'm enjoying learning.... I have been photographing tiny woodland flowers from my garden, you are welcome to look at the results if you would like on my website www.jansmithphotography.co.uk let me know what you think about them....

Jan
 
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