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[kombizz]

My name is kombizz (kambiz) kashani.
I was born and brought up in Iran, a beautiful country full of history. I started taking photos at an early age of my life with a Lubitel, a Russian twin lenses camera. Most of my photos in those days were black and white. It was a very nice camera that my parents gave me when I was 15 years old.
I always loved to see images. I remember that I would spend time in the library for hours and hours looking at the different photos in Life Magazine, National Geographic and other photographic journals and books. Also I always loved nature, and the different patterns made in it. I remember because of my Entomology studies, I would spend hours in the laboratory looking into microscopes at those beautiful and perfect structures that God created in those different tiny flowers, plants, tiny nematods, animals and insects. Then after I finished university in Iran, I left to do on my M.Sc. in California, the Golden State. There I was witness to even more of the beauties that nature held in each different moments of time. I remember I was always walking and trying to absorb all the scenes in my mind and memory as well as recording them on film. I forgot to say that I received another precious gift from my parents. That was a Canon camera with a fixed lense (G-III QL17). Then after I finished my studies, I returned to Iran for work. I consider myself an artist photographer.
At present I have a lovely Minolta Dynax 7, Mamiya 7II with few lenses. I still love and adore nature and all aspects of it. As a result I love macro photography, landscape, architecture (old and new), and many other categories like artistic abstracts, travel, people, fashion, and photo journalism.
I have a vast numbers of printed photos, slides and thousands of negatives which all are archived in many folders.
I love to share my observations through my photos with those people who love and appreciate.

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[Marc Schultz]

Welcome aboard Kombizz and thank you for sharing your very interesting background with us. I happen to see a story on the BBC the other day talking about how the women in Iran are trying to modernize their dress, while still dressing within the parameters of Muslim Law. There was a definite struggle there that the story brought out about the old school thinking and the new in terms of what is acceptable and what is not about the dress. What I did notice though from the footage they showed of modern, fashionable women walking on the streets of Tehran is that the women have really beautiful facial features. Strong cheek bones and nicely shaped eyes and noses. I can imagine they would make wonderful subjects for portrait photography in my opinion.