The Chronicles of John Trammell

In this blog, I have decided to share with you how I grew to be the photographer I am today.  Over the past few years, I have always had people ask me how I got involved into photography, and ask for some pointers.  I have been studying photography for a good portion of my life, and it isn’t going to end any time soon.  It all began 14 years ago, in 1995.       December 4 th , 1995 was my very first photography project meeting with my local 4-H club, Arroyo Verde 4-H Club, in Highland, CA.  With that first meeting, I learned how to how to take care of camera equipment, and how to begin looking around to shoot better photographs.  I received a camera from my parents, which was a 110 Instamatic Camera.  The camera didn’t have any real settings, but it was a good camera to begin composition of a photograph.  With a growing interest in the field of photography, created a demonstration presentation called “How to Take Care of a Camera?”, and I presented it at the 1996 San Bernardino Coun

Hi guys,  it has been a few months since I have had any activity on my blog.  I figure I give you an update of how things are going.  Well, first off im sick right now   and I have been since for the past 5 days.  I am slowly but surely getting better. School started, and work schedule went back to normal, and that has been the main part of my time these past few months.  In the 4-H world, had a few meetings.  Things are looking great for the Teen Involvement Conference.  I am on the planning committee for the 2010 State Leaders' Forum, and I finally got the logo for the conference done and two possible guest speakers for the events. This past weekend I was in Davis for two meetings.  Friday was a work meeting and Saturday was a Computer Corps meeting.  The main thing about that meeting was to restructure the team, so one thing that has changed is that we renamed the team to the California 4-H Technology Leadership Team.  It is going to be very exciting to see all the new member