Iceberg, Port Side! by Doug (van) Kampen

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Doug (van) Kampen, Cleveland, OH
Member Since January 2008
Artist Statement Photography has allowed me to both escape from and immerse myself in the realities of the dynamic world in which we live. It allows me to choose what I see and exercise the creative side of my life. I am an ENFP who has multiple muses.


Growing up in Southern California, I spent many hours traveling and printing in the darkroom with my Father. Even though he specialized in large format photography (4 x 5), only breaking from time-to-time to utilize his Nikon 8008, the large negatives used for printing proved beneficial while learning the photographic process, though I use to scoff at spending hours upon hours printing with him. Today I wish I had spent more time and ironically enough spend hours upon hours in from of the machine processing my shots; He has not printed in years.


My first "real" camera, not counting those that contained 110-400 ASA film or disk film (I am dating myself), was a Minolta SR-T201 (1966-1981). It contained one small watch battery for the light meter but worked like a champ and still does. Who knew that people are still willing to service these!


I won't bore you with what I have used since then, but today I use a Nikon D80 Digital SLR. I made the jump from a Nikon N90s about 8 months ago and haven't looked back since (May of 2007).