Today’s iPhone challenge photo is a selfie with two of my best friends and fellow photographers, Tom Wortham, left, and Lowell Mendyk. We’ve known and shot pictures together since the early 1970s! In fact, Lowell was my mentor my junior and senior years in high school and with out the knowledge I gained from him those two years I very well might not be the photographer I am today.
Because of the mentoring I was able to take a test when I entered the Air Force and bypass the photography technical school, which had no openings when I got out of basic, and allowed be to go directly to my first duty assignment as a photographer at Eglin AFB, Fl. The first time I got leave from the Air Force and came home for a visit in 1972 I first met Tom and we’ve been lifelong friends ever since.
This weekend we’re all three at Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park for their annual Spring Photography Weekend. The two of them were the presenters for the program tonight and I’m a participant in the Masters Division. Over all we’ve got 37 photographers that will be traipsing all over the park and forest shooting picture for the competition. It’s always a great time and good to see old friends that come every year for the event.
Photo was shot with the iPhone 5s with the front facing camera and post processing was done in Snapseed.