I have loved photography ever since high school and I had a 35mm Minolta with a telephoto lens, filters, tripod the works! It broke on me and I couldnt afford to fix it :( Then I tried my hand at video, documented a lot with that and had fun with it but my heart belongs to photography. I have recently been able to upgrade to a DSLR and am still learning everything. My main goal and focus is to take better pics of my kids. Flickr has been great letting me stalk around other people's pages and see their view on the world through the lens of their camera, man there is some AWESOME talent out there!