Self Portrait 18, Ship Window

'Self Portrait 18' - 1986                                                                                                                                                     snake

'Ship Window' - 1986                                                                                                                                                      snake

LEFT EYE DOMINANT.  I am a right handed individual...I do everything right handed, bat a ball, throw a ball, shoot a bow...everything.  However, I am left eye dominant, my strong focusing eye is my left one where normally it should be my right.  When photographing, I hold and handle my camera like a right handed person would do, but, I look through the viewfinder and focus with my left eye.

I have bowhunted for over twenty years and have always shot my compound bow and my recurve bow right handed and aimed with my right eye.  Today, February 27, 2014, I have switched to shooting a left handed recurve bow, thus, aiming with my left eye and letting the arrow fly.  I will correlate shooting and aiming left handed with photographing while still using my left eye.  Leica equipment will parallel my recurve bow, while I will still shoot right handed with my compound bow, to correlate with my SLR cameras (Canon & Nikon).

Going forth from this date, I will practice to become proficient in instinctively shooting a left handed bow, aiming with my left eye and meshing this discipline with my Leica rangefinder photography.