The name Eighteen Fifty Six is as you guessed it a year. When creating my blog I wanted the name to mean something to me and this date is the year that my fraternity was founded. Although many fraternities have the negative Animal House stereotype, I loved mine and it made me a better person.
Welcome to my photo blog. I created this space to share with others what I enjoy to do, which is photograph people, places, and just about anything that I like. I spent a lot of time looking at other photoblogs and commenting on others pictures that I decided I wanted to share mine as well. I want to use this site to document my progress as a photographer as the last art class I took was when I was in middle school. In high school I began to get into photography espicially when I traveled. I would shoot role after role on my trips and that was most of my photography experience until a friend of mine convinced me to get on the school newspaper. I began taking pictures for different articles and had the most fun shooting sports. In high school I had this dream of becoming an AP photographer shooting sporting events (probably every photographer dreams this at one point or another). For the last two years of high school I had a blast shooting all kinds of pictures for the newspaper, but once I got to college I began to shoot even more. In college I started shooting pictures around the area and just tried to shoot pictures that I would visualize. I also began to shoot pictures for my fraternity events to help document the philanthropic and social events that we took part in. Most of this increase in taking pictures is due mainly to switching to digital cameras. My desires in the future are to make some kind of living off photography whether it be part time, full time, or once I retire.
I encourage anyone that visits to leave feedback and critiques. I want this site to be a place for everyone to enjoy and for myself to learn. Enjoy the site.
"The TRUE GENTLEMAN is the man whose conduct proceeds from good will and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self-control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe." - John Walter Wayland