Photography

by

Keith Hamlin

The Year 2007 and even 2008 are Looking Good!!!

• Professional Underwater Photographer since 1988, published in over a dozen different Dive publications.

• Professional Glamour and Feature Photographer since 1985, published in dozens of different magazines so far, numerous Flyers, Websites, Promotional Items (Calenders, Glossies, Trading Cards).

• Several AP syndicated Cartoons (but working on more...).

• Professional Webmaster, with over 60 sites, as far back as 1992, and over 25 presently managed.

• Professional Graphic Arts & Design, with ads in print since 1990, several corporate accounts, and many individual corporate Ads, Logos, and Flyers.

I do seem to wind up in the oddest places, at the incorrect times..... Sometimes my stuff makes it to print, as the happening of the day, like the fire pics, but sometimes I stuff the film for my own sanity, like this next one.... I was headed for Daytona, for Bike Week 97, and my friend had bailed out on me.... He had to teach a class, so I was on my own. I was just past Orlando, when all of a sudden in front of me these two girls lost control of their car. I pulled off as I watched it transpire, and the one girl was not belted.... she wound up underneath the upright car, and with the help of a bunch of Bikers that had also pulled over, we rolled it off of her..... to the upside down position here. Now for those of you who don't know me, I have more medical titles than I care to think about or maintain, such as EMT, Paramedic, Firefighter, ACLS, BCLS, RN, CCRN, TNCC, and a few others..... We worked on her, but it was hopeless, and the worst part, is that probably with her seatbelt on she might have survived, as the other gal came out looking pretty good, just shook..... Anyways, the mood spoiled.....

I did continue on..... Now, in a crowd, I have this habit of shooting from the hip.... With my camera, that is...... As seen in this candid shot of a strangely dressed older couple, but then again, when I am that age, at Bike Week, who knows what I will be wearing...... and the back view..... and then there are the things I do long for, but seem so out of reach..... (Of course, I am still gimped from a dumptruck nailing me off of my HD Sportster in 1977, but I still dream...)

I do love Nature, and underwater photography, but think that I will hold off on underwater photography in this guys hole until later..... Then there are the sporting events..... I could be a sports photographer, but there are the oddities that sometimes distract me and seem more interesting than the game sometimes..... Like the presence of more radar guns behind the plate for a spring training game than there are along the whole of the Cannonball Run...... and another case of misplacement..... This one did sell...... Not for much, but everything helps, and it is nice to get a credit once in a while..... A Trailer on fire at about 4 AM in Alligator Alley..... Well, this is a start, and hope to place more as the time allows, and if I am in the right place at the right time.....