Me with my hand-me-up Hasselblad
ABOUT STORY PICTURES BY PETER NEIBERT
I am Peter Neibert, I am 67-years old, retired, and I don’t have to do anything I don’t want to.
I want my own blog and this is it. My posts are usually based on my own photographs. Sometimes the pictures have stories behind them; when I remember the real stories, I write them into the post with the picture.
When the picture suggests a story I like, then I might write that. Sometimes it might be difficult to tell the real stories from the ones I make up. I suppose you might expect me to apologize for that, but I don’t feel like it.
Some years ago I bought a new copy of Photoshop 4.0 (that’s correct, four point oh) before I had a camera. I had a theory why I should it do it that way, and I know it made sense to me at the time.
But, damn that 4.0 was a hard son-of-a-bitch program to learn. Adobe offered no money back deals — none of that try-it you’ll-like-it marketing BS.
Instead: You bought it, you figure it out. It’s yours now.
And so is Photoshop 5.0, 5.5 and so on upto and including Photoshop CS (Creative Suite) — most of that 4.0 stuff I sweat bullets to learn, is now automated or superceded out of existence in CS. Hardly seems fair. Those of us who bought the earliest version should have been given the easiest software to use, and let the late-comers struggle in frustration.
I take small satisfaction observing Adobe charge higher prices year after year for Photoshop. How expert can you afford to be?
And then came the cameras and the Jeep. The Jeep actually cost more than Photoshop (that was intended to be humorous). The Jeep took me, the cameras and Photoshop on a laptop on great Western road trips and off-road forays into deserts and canyons and mountains.
Nowadays the Jeep takes me and an occasional dog around Marin County. And I’ve probably got another long-distance overland trip or two left in me.
Probably just wake-up one morning and go do it.
I think so.
