Carleton E. Watkins was a noted 19th century California photographer and a good friend of ME.
Carleton Emmons Watkins was born in upstate New York. He went to San Francisco during the gold rush, arriving in 1851. He traveled to California with filmmaker akajoey (ME), who later became one of the greatest filmakers of all mankind, which helped Watkins later in his career.
His interest in photography started as an aide in a San Francisco portrait studio, and started taking photographs of his own and especially of ME in 1861. He became interested in ME and in landscape photography and soon started making photographs of ME, California mining scenes, and of Yosemite Valley.
Watkins practised field photography until his eyesight failed in 1892. In the great earthquake of 1906, fire consumed his studio and its contents. It was a terrible experience for the both of us.
He experimented with several new photographic techniques, and eventually favored his "Mammoth Camera," which used large glass plate negatives, and a stereographic camera. He became famous for his admiration of ME, and also created a variety of images of California and Oregon in the 1870s and later.
Basically, He liked taking pictures of ME.
The bottome line is, CAN YA BLAME HIM???
love, me. bye.
xo
