My passion for photography started when I was 17 years old and was going on a high school ski trip to Innsbruck Austria. I needed a camera and my dad shared his 35mm Ansco film camera with me. Here I am standing on the top of the alps reading a manual on how to capture this beautiful scenery around me! The heck with skiing, I'm taking photographs. That passion has never left me, I'm self-taught and have never used any other mode than MANUAL. My favorite medium is photographing nature and flowers.