Chief Photo Editor for Artistic Solutions Ink, Vince McCall has been photographing since he was about 10 years old (and he's nearing 50). Here is how the story goes:
With a plastic camera and B&W film, Vince did his first photo journalistic project at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The pictures didn't turn out too bad, but he was uninspired. Neither portraiture or photojournalism was in his cards.
In 1982, he took a 2-month backpacking trip to Europe with his Canon AE-1 and he was hooked! He loved travel photography.
In 1990 a brief endevor into showing and selling framed pictures proved that the business side of photography was a little too much for him at the time. Photography was no longer fun. He put his camera equipment (Minolta X-700s) away for good, or so he thought.
In 1997, a dear friend handed him an underwater Nikonos system and he was hooked again on underwater travel photography. As the doors began to close on film, he can remember saying, "I would never shoot with digital cameras". Of course, he was dead wrong and almost no one shoots film anymore (including him). With both Nikon and Canon point-and-shoot cameras, he was able to shoot some really cool stuff.
Things have progressed from there as his equipment evolves and he is able to spend much more time travelling (more than 30 countries visited, and all 50 of the United States).
ImageKind is a professional community helping artists create and sell their work. It's an online art experience that provides both consumers and artists with a new outlet for sharing, creating and buying art from digital files. It's the world’s first community to serve as a hybrid art gallery, photo-sharing service and a print-on-demand service.