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MICHAEL BOWER

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Email: MichaelB@minox.org

I've been interested in Minox Photography for almost 12 years. Actually it started earlier than that when my dad had a Minox when I was growing up (oh so many years ago). I started with a Minox B that I picked up on eBay. Then it was a Minox IIIs from an uncle and a Minox C from a colleague at work in quick order. Since then I've picked up an EC, a GTX (I know, not 8x11) and recently a couple of Minox Classics (IIIf and M3).

I've been working in photography since the early 60s when I have my first "paid gig" shooting pictures for a church summer camp. (I still have fond memories of taking pictures one day, rushing home, developing the film, printing the pictures that night on my Ansco Contact Printer and taking the prints in the next day. I think I got a whole 25 cents per shot. For a 7th grader, that was a lot of money.) Since then I've been a wedding photographer, a portrait photographer, an ad photographer and a stringer for several newspapers. (Who remembers the Kansas City Blues Hockey Club?)

I love the ability to always have a camera around with my Minox. However, my employer frowns on me bringing one to work. (If I tell you who I work for, I
have to kill you. But it is appropriate that I collect Minoxi.)

Michael Bower
October 2003

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