Introduction to Aperture
The heading "Aperture" on my website refers to an app on my iMac some years ago that was used to store, develop, and organize digital pictures (today's "Photos").
I bought my first digital camera at Christmas, 2020, and I started taking pictures in January of 2021. The camera was an Olympus Brio 100, and it produced 1.2 megapixel files—not much, but the quality wasn't too bad (today, my Canon produces files of 35-40 MP per pic).
At the time, I was a spiritual director at the North American College in Rome, a seminary for American students who attended theology school at one of the Roman Universities. I was myself a student at NAC in the early 70s, attending the Jesuit Gregorian University.
For the next three years (2001-2003) in Rome, I took many pictures of Rome, Italy, the students, and family pictures when I was home for the holidays.
I returned home in the summer of 2003, taking my new job as vicar for clergy in the Archdiocese of Portland. I continued to take pictures with a number of new cameras, all Canon, as I became more proficient with photography, and Canon updated and improved its cameras.
I continued to store, develop, and organize my pictures on my iMac computers, with the various apps that Apple supported. Aperture was eventually discontinued, but I did my best to save my pictures on external hard drives, now using Adobe Light Room Classic as my organizational and developing tool for pictures.
I called one large file on LRC "Aperture," where I stored my first digital pictures. They did not have the quality of my later pictures, but they recorded an important time in my life and many good memories.
When I started to construct this website, LUXVITAEPDX.COM, I decided that I would post my first pictures from later "Roman Years," and those pictures are listed under the heading "Aperture."
Each page is called "Aperture," with a number. Each number contains about 200 pictures, and the total number of pictures is close to 5000. For the most part, the pictures are chronological. After those three years, my pictures are included under other headings, such as "vacations" and "family, on this site (and my other site, LUMENPDX.COM).
Some of the pictures I took during those three years in Italy, though limited a bit by size and camera, continue to be my favorites, so they still show up in some of the cards I make (card making is my hobby). Because their size (megapixels) is small, they don't "blow up" too well, but they are fine for something 4X6 or 5X7.
The pictures at left and below are a part of this collection, among the first pictures taken with my first digital point-and-shoot camera.
I am posting all these pictures now "for old times sake," and perhaps to show you my photographic history. I love photography, and I am happy to have this website to share my pictures with you.
I bought my first digital camera at Christmas, 2020, and I started taking pictures in January of 2021. The camera was an Olympus Brio 100, and it produced 1.2 megapixel files—not much, but the quality wasn't too bad (today, my Canon produces files of 35-40 MP per pic).
At the time, I was a spiritual director at the North American College in Rome, a seminary for American students who attended theology school at one of the Roman Universities. I was myself a student at NAC in the early 70s, attending the Jesuit Gregorian University.
For the next three years (2001-2003) in Rome, I took many pictures of Rome, Italy, the students, and family pictures when I was home for the holidays.
I returned home in the summer of 2003, taking my new job as vicar for clergy in the Archdiocese of Portland. I continued to take pictures with a number of new cameras, all Canon, as I became more proficient with photography, and Canon updated and improved its cameras.
I continued to store, develop, and organize my pictures on my iMac computers, with the various apps that Apple supported. Aperture was eventually discontinued, but I did my best to save my pictures on external hard drives, now using Adobe Light Room Classic as my organizational and developing tool for pictures.
I called one large file on LRC "Aperture," where I stored my first digital pictures. They did not have the quality of my later pictures, but they recorded an important time in my life and many good memories.
When I started to construct this website, LUXVITAEPDX.COM, I decided that I would post my first pictures from later "Roman Years," and those pictures are listed under the heading "Aperture."
Each page is called "Aperture," with a number. Each number contains about 200 pictures, and the total number of pictures is close to 5000. For the most part, the pictures are chronological. After those three years, my pictures are included under other headings, such as "vacations" and "family, on this site (and my other site, LUMENPDX.COM).
Some of the pictures I took during those three years in Italy, though limited a bit by size and camera, continue to be my favorites, so they still show up in some of the cards I make (card making is my hobby). Because their size (megapixels) is small, they don't "blow up" too well, but they are fine for something 4X6 or 5X7.
The pictures at left and below are a part of this collection, among the first pictures taken with my first digital point-and-shoot camera.
I am posting all these pictures now "for old times sake," and perhaps to show you my photographic history. I love photography, and I am happy to have this website to share my pictures with you.