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Welcome To My Home Page
Hi ; I am Jim Duell and I am from Perry, NY which is located in Wyoming County. I enjoy doing photography using both digital and film. I have put a selection of photos together to place on this new website. I have been taking pictures since around 1971 when I joined our towns fire department. I still am a member of 32 years and still take more pictures that just of fires and accidents. We go to a lot of Fairs and Festivals through out the spring, summer & fall times of the year. We enjoy the Hot Air Balloon Festivals the most of everything. In 2001 I took 5,015 pictures using both digital and 35mm film. A great year for pictures. |
NEW FAST FERRY TERMINAL IN ROCHESTER NY
Carol and I spent a dark and gloomy Saturday checking out the construction of the new fast ferry terminal at Ontario Beach Park at the mouth of the Genesee River. This was a great looking building so far. We tried to get on the other side of the river to get more pictures but, couldn't get down there. We will keep checking out this terminal in the future till its completed. I took about 25 pictures at the first time this year. |
WEEKEND TRAVEL IS GREAT
The two of us spend a lot of weekends just touring around the great state of New York. Nice weekends we will spend a Saturday just going to some type of festival within a 100 mile radius of home. It might be the Oswego Harborfest that takes 2 hours to get to but, spend a great day sitting by the harbor and visiting the canal locks and watching the boats in the harbor. The day ends with a great fireworks display around 10:00 PM. |
MY CAMERA EQUIPTMENT
I use several camera's during the picture taking season. I just this past spring I purchased a new Minolta Maxxum 5 35mm camera with a 28-90mm Auto Focus Lens. I have just about all Minolta camera's. The first one I bought was back in May of 1979 which was a XG-7 35mm & a 50mm Lens. Then soon after came a XG-A 35mm Camera and a 100-200mm telephoto lens. Then a few years later I got a X-700 Body and a 28mm Wide Angle Lens. Then came the Minolta 5xi body and a 28-105mm AF Lens which comes with little computer cards for different things. Then I got a Kodak 210+ digital and a 290 digital both while working at Kodak. It came with a 16mb card and a 8 mb card. I just got 2- 64mb cards. I just purchased a second Minolta 5xi body off of Ebay that works great. I also just got a new Quasar Palmcorder for Carol to use at the Balloon Shows. I also got a new 70-300 mm AF lens that works on all the AF cameras and works in a manual status on all the manual cameras. I have also a Spiratone 400-800mm Telephoto Lens for shooting the moon.
JIM DUELL
DARKROOM B & W DEVELOPING
I have a darkroom which I develope my own negatives both color and black & white and then print only black and white pictures. I do the pictures for the fire department convention books when we have them. These are all black and white. I took two courses at Genesee Community College in Batavia for Darkroom Developing and camera use. I took a Video Photography Course at the New York State Fire Academy in Montour Falls, NY getting 2 credits from Corning Community College. This was a 2 day course at the academy. There is going to be a new Fire Photography Course this November 2003 for 3 days at the State Academy. I am going to try to take it if possible. |

OSWEGO RIVER INTO LAKE ONTARIO
Taking a walk on the walkway over the Oswego River with a beautiful view looking out to Lake Ontario.
JIM DUELL |