How It all Started

Like many budding photographers, I started when my parents gave me a Kodak Instamatic. I took pictures of everything, but mostly of my friends and my cat. Like every young photographer with a film camera, I depended on my parents to develop the film. I still have all of those prints, but sadly not the negatives.Then I bought my own 110 camera. Remember those? The tiniest negatives, and I do have some of those after all these years, but I cannot scan them like the 35mm negatives. Arghh!

Finally when I was 18 I purchased my own 35mm Rollei. Was I excited. Now I had to learn how to use a "real" camera. Mostly my lessons were from trial and error or pointers from fellow photographers. I soon graduated to another camera, the Minolta, and then to the Nikon 2002 and continued with film 35mm until 2004, taking photos of just about anything and everything, especially when I traveled. Landscapes, nature, historic sites, and wildlife being my favorite shots. And cats too, of course.

In 2004, I finally took the plunge into digital photography, but with a point and shoot. In those "early" days of digital, cameras were expensive and DSLRs were not yet developed well. But last year, I decided I needed more creativity with my photography and took the leap and bought a D7000. I have begun to take hands-on classes too in the past year as I want to push what I can do even further. The classes, while helping me technically, really are an advantage to me because I get ideas from other photographers. I shorten my learning curve by copying some of their techniques and ideas. So for the first time since I began shooting with an Instamatic, I have a community of fellow photographers that love the same thing I do, And that's the best part.

The photos you see on this site are taken with both a digital point and shoot and the Nikon D7000.

The photo accompanying this blog is me at 6 months. And no, I did not take this one.