Jay Brass has loved the outdoors and photography since he was a young boy growing up in the foothills of the Adirondacks. In fact, much of his young life was spent hiking, kayaking and camping all over the Adirondack Park.
Back in the day, Jay was a fan of George Eastman and it earned him the nickname "The Kodak Kid", a name he continues to use today.
He learned the finer points of photography in college - developing film by hand, creating prints from negatives and hanging them to dry. This earned him a Bachelors' degree in photography in 1990, and he soon began to find opportunities to enter juried shows and have his work printed in various publications. Jay worked at photo developing shops to support his habit, and witnessed firsthand the arrival of the digital age.
This was an important crossroad in his life. Would he maintain the truism of using film, or cross to the dark side and embrace digital renderings. To quote the rock band Rush, "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." As for his decision, Jay primarily uses digital equipment today, but he maintains all of his original 35mm equipment and the ability to use it. As guitar players collect guitars, Jay has a collection of cameras, from Olympus, to Minolta, and Nikon, but his favorite has to be his medium format twin lens reflex Rolleiflex. It is the camera he used for his thesis, and it holds an esteemed position within his collection. Jay holds a Masters degree in Engineering, and when he is not doing photography, he works as a software engineer by day and sometimes by night.
He enjoys hiking, biking and horsebackriding on the trails of Long Island, and spending time with his family. In any free time he has left, he enjoys writing about himself in the third person.