Hi ! My name is Karl Mahnke, and this is a little about me. I am currently living in Florida, but I am originally from California's beautiful Central Coast. I have also lived in Germany a couple of times, Texas, New England, and Washington State. I got my start in photography using an old Brownie Hawkeye 'box' camera with, if I remember right, 128 mm film. No lens that you could focus, just a little knob that moved in and out. I did not have a darkroom, so you had to wait a week, or even a couple weeks to see how things turned...more
