Donna Molinari's Biography
I have a great passion for photography for many years. It is one of my favorite hobbies. I love taking pictures as one of my special hobbies and seeing the results. I first started photography lessons in High School and learned about how to process black & white pictures. We learned how to develop film negatives and how to use enlargers (old fashion way) to print the pictures. During my last year of high school, the photography instructor taught us how to develop pictures from color negatives.
While working for United Airlines I traveled to the Hawaiian Islands about 25 plus times. I photographed the islands (Kauai, Big Island, Oahu and Maui) using a Nikon F2 SLR camera with prime lenses. When I got married, we traveled to the Tahitian Islands on our Honeymoon. After a few years later we traveled to Australia and New Zealand. We have been back to Hawaii for our 25th Anniversary (Maui 2007) and then Kauai 2008 and the Big Island in 2012. Recently our last trip was in May 2017 back to Oahu after more than 25 years.
Professionally I am a Software Quality CyberSecurity Engineer with many years computer technology experience. My first computer industry job was in IT (formally MIS) at United Airlines and I continued to stay in the field of computers by moving into Technical Support positions in supporting routers and bridges, client/server and web technologies then finally for the last 17 years as QA Engineer for web-based Enterprise applications. I have the last 7 years worked are HPE (PPM, Cloud Service Automation and ArcSight as a QA Engineer). I am now retired from the High Tech world.
Camera Equipment
I exclusively use a NIKON D500 HDSLR Cameras for all my photographs now. I carry the NIKON 1 J5 camera with me all of the time.
The following are my current Camera equipment:
NIKON D500 with Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR
NIKON 1 J5 Mirrorless Camera with Nikon 1 VR 10-30/3.5-5.6 PD-ZOOM
NIKON D300 with Nikon AF-S DX VR Zoom-NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED
NIKON F2 with Prime 28mm Lens
OTHER LENSES
NIKON AF-S FX NIKKOR 28mm f/1.8G
NIKON AF-S DX VR Zoom-NIKKOR 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED
NIKON AF-S FX NIKKOR 14-24mm f/2.8G ED
NIKON AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3G ED VR
NIKON AF-S FX VR MICRO-NIKKOR 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED
SIGMA APS-C FX 70-300mm/F4-5.6 APO DG MACRO F/NIKON
NIKON 1 NIKKOR VR 30-110/3.8-5.6
NIKON 1 NIKKOR VR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6
MY NIKON FLASHES
NIKON SB-800 AF Speedlight
NIKON SB-300 AF Speedlight
NIKON SB-500 AF Speedlight