A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.
But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.
For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.
I also do my own processing, so it means a big commitment in lab time.
I am not Spock.
I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.
I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.
I certainly don't live in a kosher home although I was raised in a kosher environment.
I deal with this spiritual issue every day - either shooting or processing or sorting or discussing or having conversations - I'm in constant contact with it.
I have shot a lot of pictures that I am very pleased with, but which look like pictures that could have been taken by anybody.
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall where they may.
I was working on the female figure before I started thinking of it as spiritual work.
I'm attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.
I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
I've been working with photography for many years.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have been shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.
My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.
My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.
My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.
Other times, you're doing some piece of work and suddenly you get feedback that tells you that you have touched something that is very alive in the cosmos.
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.
That's the most difficult issue for me... to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.
That's true, because I'm a photographer now.
The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.
The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.
This particular work that I'm so involved with is very dependent on the dynamics and the theatricality of composition and light.
This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.
What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.
Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast.
Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.
You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.
You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.
Nimoy along with fellow co-star George Takei, were interviewed on the Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart concering a C-SPAN clip of Congressman David Wu speaking to the House of Representatives. Daily Show: Faux Klingons 1-17-2007.
Hosted the Nickelodeon children's channel television program, Standby...Lights! Camera! Action! (1982).
Voiced Kashekim Nedakh the King of Atlantis for the Disney movie Atlantis: the Lost Empire (2001).
Leonard starred in The Outer Limits episode "I, Robot." In which he played a nosy newspaper reporter who's on the trail of a hot story.
In 2002, he published a controversial monograph entitled “Shekhina,” on the manifestation on earth of God’s female aspect, according to mystical Judaism. The book consists of black and white pictures of obese naked women and has caused some up roar among the Jewish community. The project took him 8 years to complete.
Leonard was in the intro of the William Shatner Roast on Comedy Central insulting and arguing with Bill over the phone. (8-20-06)
Nimoy is the spokesperson of the Internet web search engine Netword.com who hired him based on his In Search Of and Star Trek fame.
Was 10 years old when he performed for Jewish audiences during World War II to promote war bonds.
Nimoy leant his voice to the introduction at the Mugar Omni Theater at the Museum of Science in Boston.
In Los Angeles, the newly renovated Griffith Observatory's lecture hall has been named the Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon in his honor (April 2006).
In 2001, Nimoy appeared in conversation with William Shatner in the video/DVD "Mind Meld: Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime", in which they discuss their friendship, the years working together on "Star Trek: The Orginal Series". Is a filmed conversation in Nimoy's backyard in which the actors (Shatner and Nimoy), who are personality opposities became the closest of friends, they discuss the unlikely bond that formed from working together over the years, dispite Nimoy's alcoholism and the resentment the both have encountered from some of their fellow TOS castmembers.
His character was the only Star Trek character to be featured exclusively in a game related to Trek, with "Mr. Spock's Three-Dimensional Chess," manufactured in plastic by Lincoln Enterprises in the 1970s, and in metal with chrome/gold-plated tiers supporting glass boards/pewter chess pieces by both the Franklin Mint and The Hamilton Collection in the late 1980s - early 1990s.
Leonard released the following poetry book: These Words Are For You in the 1970s, We Are All Searching For Love: A Collection of Poems & Photographs in 1977, Come Be With Me in 1978 and ... and You and I in the 1980s.
With his long, sculpted features, subdued yet saturnine expression and intelligent manner, Nimoy has most often been cast as cerebral types (Spock), though his intense, incisive manner also makes him an apt villain (Mission: Impossible).
He made his final appearence as Mr. Spock in a 1991 two-parter "Unification" on the the Trek spin-off Star Trek: The Next Generation
Nimoy's rich, somber voice and interest in science and environmental issues also made him much in demand as a narrator of such TV documentaries as "The Coral Jungle (1976)", "Snakes: Eden's Deadly Charmers" (1988), and "Adventures in Space" (1989).
He directed the movies Star Trek III: The Search for Spock(1984), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home(1986), Three Men and a Baby(1987), The Good Mother(1988), Funny About Love(1990), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country(1991), Holy Matrimony(1994),
Made his first Broadway appearance in 1973's Full Circle.
In 1956, he became a regular at the Ziv TV studios, in Hollywood, playing villains in programs like Highway Patrol and Sea Hunt.
Directed the Broadway-bound play, "The Apple Doesn't Fall" which is a comedy written by Trish Vradenburg.
Apart from his work on the big screen and stage, Nimoy served as host of the cable TV show Ancient Mysteries, and has also served as host of Jewish Short Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond, a series on National Public Radio.
Nimoy, de Lancie, Segaloff have performed live their "First Men in the Moon, The Lost World" and their "Halloween Trilogy" for Sci-Fi Channel.
In 1996, Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie and Nat Segaloff teamed up to create Alien Voices, Inc. Alien Voices is a company of Star Trek actors who come together to perform dramatizations of the great Science Fiction Classics. Alien Voices is the premiere acting company in Science Fiction today.
Nimoy's first meeting with Gene Roddenberry came when he guest starred in an episode of "The Lieutenant" who a producer of that show. Roddenberry was impressed with Nimoy's guest apperance and vowed to cast the saturnine, mellow-voiced actor as an extraterrestrial if ever given the chance.
For the movie Zombies of the Stratosphere(1952) his salary was $500.
Nimoy also devised the Vulcan Salute consisting of a raised hand, palm forward with the fingers parted between the middle and ring finger. It is said to be based on the traditional kohanic blessing, which is performed with both hands, thumb to thumb in this position. a position thought to represent the Hebrew letter shin (?). (This letter is often used as a symbol of God in Judaism, as it is an abbreviation for God's name Shaddai. This usage is seen, for example, on every mezuzah.) Nimoy may also have derived the accompanying spoken blessing, "Live long and prosper" from this source, as the last phrase of the blessing is "May the Lord be forbearing unto you and give you peace" (Numbers 6:24-26).
Leonard has ppeared in several Priceline.com TV commercials along side William Shatner his former Star Trek co-star.
Nimoy's performance on Star Trek earned him three Emmy nominations.
Nimoy also became a successful movie director for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the most successful of the Star Trek films to date. Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek's creator, referred to Nimoy as "the conscience of Star Trek."
Suffers from tinnitus (ringing in the ears), along with "Star Trek" co-star William Shatner. Nimoy's right ear and Shatner's left ear are affected. Their hearing was apparently damaged during the filming of the episode "Arena" when they were both close to a special effects explosion.
Is an accomplished photographer and started at 13. He specializes in black and white images, and has given exhibitions of his works. His photos depict the Naturalism style of the human body mainly of females.
Leonard appeared in a TV commercial for Aleve during the Super Bowl in 2006.
Leonard was born only four days after his Star Trek (1966) co-star William Shatner.
When Richard Widmark left, Leonard became the Friday night host for The Mutual Radio Theater on Mutual Radio (1980).
Leonard's father had a barbershop in Boston, where one of the more popular haircuts given was the "Spock cut."
Leonard is the creator of the Primortals comic book series.
In 1993, Leonard recorded William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy Read Four Science Fiction Classics featuring stories by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Henry Kuttner, and Robert A. Heinlein.
In 1991, Leonard starred in and produced the film, Never Forget, for the Turner Network, which deals with a true case of a Holocaust survivor suing a neo-Nazi organization who claimed the extermination of Jews in World War II was a myth.
Leonard also made five narrative albums in the 1970s, including readings from War of the Worlds and The Martian Chronicles.
Leonard's first starring film role was in 1952 as Kid Monk Baroni, a youth with a deformed face who becomes a champion boxer.
Leonard worked as a soda jerk, movie usher and cab driver to pay the bills while he studied acting.
Leonard's first stage appearance was in Hansel and Gretel at the age of 8.
Leonard was William Shatner's Best Man at his third wedding to Nerine Kidd.
Leonard has two children, Adam and Julie. Both were by first wife Sandra Zober.
Leonard's surname, Nimoy, means "an outsider who can't speak Russian" in Russian.
Leonard it the father of director Adam Nimoy.
Leonard has appeared in episodes of five different television series with William Shatner: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Star Trek, Star Trek: The Animated Series, T.J. Hooker and Futurama.
Leonard is an avid writer of poetry.
Leonard received an Honorable Discharge in the rank of Sergeant when he left the military.
Leonard is approximately 6'1" (1.85 m) tall.
The "Vulcan nerve pinch" concept in Star Trek was invented by Leonard when he and the show's writers were trying to figure out how an unarmed Spock could overpower an adversary without resorting to violence.
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