Hee, well, as for 'fairy godmothers,' you never know. Nothing so grandiose and perhaps implausible as these claims may be, hey, when I was getting my start at quite a young age, *I* had help. I mean, I knew what I was *doing,* (heh, mostly) but people don't typically send fifteen year old kids out into the night with a suitcase full of Pentax 6x7 stuff to shoot weddings.
Happened, though.
(Also a contributing factor to why I'm here with Pentax today: that big ol' Takumar glass was murder to carry, but it made me look *good.*
Since Canon stubbornly refused to go back to the FD mount for some reason, I was happy enough to get in on some of *that* kind of stuff. I digress. )
So, anyway. As for whether or not Student here has left the thread cause it was all BS, or just cause if he was telling the truth, a lot of people in that situation might go, 'I can sit here and take guff or go hang out where I get free camera gear and hopefully an education,' (While one might understand there's cause for great skepticism, here, I could see Student not sticking around, if only to start getting some of those images everyone's been asking to see.
)
So, there we are.
You know, maybe people *should* do more stuff like this. You know, I played that hand for all it was worth and it wasn't quite enough for it to work out, but in a lousy situation, it was a chance. A real chance. That's always meant the world to me.