About

Hi, I’m Shannon.

I’m the person behind the scenes at 35millimetre.com. I consider myself to be quite creative. I’ve been a musician since the age of 8 and… Well, I guess I wasn’t much of a musician at that age. I should probably say that I started learning my first instrument (Kit Drums – much to my Mum and Dad’s dismay) at age 8, and gradually became a musician as I learned my craft and picked up a few more instruments along the way.

Beyond music, I haven’t really ventured in to the arts much at all, but I’ve always held an interest in other creative pursuits and have a very high appreciation for original design, sculpture, architecture, photography and painting. I often find myself investigating creative possibilities in my mind – an idea for a movie script, or maybe an electronic sculpture… But sooner or later I find that the daily realities of time and responsibility kick back in and the idea falls back into the infinity vault. I’m a perpetual dreamer.

My working life has been paved with past personas of small business management, audio engineering, and a trade in electronics, which led me directly into the field of Information Technology – and that’s what I’ve been doing for the past 15 years. So right now, in my day-to-day life, I’m a computer geek. My “on the job” experience is centric to back-end Internet technologies such tasks as programming routers and firewalls, building servers, etc. I’m a specialist in the fields of Citrix and VMWare – which most likely don’t mean a lot to the average reader, but are very exciting technologies nonetheless.

More recently though, my creative side has been making a comeback. Outside of work I’ve become far more interested in things like web design, graphic design, photography, and learning how to put it all together in ways that are appealing and interesting. …And this is pretty much how 35millimetre.com came to be. So, in my endeavour to learn to take great photos, I hope you’ll come along for the ride. Maybe we’ll BOTH learn something!

Thanks
Shannon