{"id":133,"date":"2010-07-09T23:03:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T03:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2010-07-16T00:30:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T04:30:44","slug":"hes-my-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"He’s My Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the COOLEST things about this trip was having my brother Larry there, along with his wife Judy.<\/p>\n

Back story:\u00a0 Larry is 11 1\/2 years older than me.\u00a0 It’s an understatement to say that I really looked up to him and our brother Mike (12 1\/2 years my senior) when I was a kid.\u00a0 Larry was out of the Navy and in college studying art and photography when I entered high school.\u00a0 He introduced me to photography.\u00a0 He amazed me with his creative eye and the beautiful images he produce with film.\u00a0 His small black and white “lab” in the shed behind his house seemed like a magical place to me.\u00a0 He showed me enough of the basics for me to want my own camera.<\/p>\n

So off I went, buying a 35mm Pentax with one 50mm lens, dabbling through high school and college.\u00a0 Around the same time, Larry went to work for a studio in Nashville, but left photography to pursue a different career.\u00a0 I pretty much dropped photography in 1984 after my college yearbook days.\u00a0 My photography interests were rekindled in 1998, and I’ve truly been immersed in it ever since.\u00a0 Larry recently renewed his interest in photography after being on hiatus since the mid-80’s, except an occasional point and shoot moment.<\/p>\n

So, this trip was Larry’s first real dive back into using a “real camera” … only, there’s no film in it!\u00a0 Learning digital was new and exciting for him, if not initially intimidating.<\/p>\n

I think most of us dream of the day that we become good enough at a craft that our mentor or teacher is proud of us, and from whom we’ve earned respect.\u00a0 Well, that was the feeling I had with Larry participating in our workshop.\u00a0 To think that I could actually help teach him something about photography, which he introduced me to and had such a mastery of years ago, was both an honor and a blessing!\u00a0 I still have a long way to go to reach my photographic aspirations, but this was a proud and pivotal moment in many respects.\u00a0 Among other things, it helped me stop and realize a) how thankful I was that Larry took the time years ago to share something he loved with me, and b) the progress I’ve made after all the time, effort, and passion I’ve devoted.<\/p>\n

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Larry and Mark - Hoo Doos Trail<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the COOLEST things about this trip was having my brother Larry there, along with his wife Judy. Back story:\u00a0 Larry is 11 1\/2 years older than me.\u00a0 It’s an understatement to say that I really looked up to him and our brother Mike (12 1\/2 years my senior) when I was a kid.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}