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I first picked up a camera in the early 80's. It was a 110 fixed lens Point and Shoot but I had a blast with it. I quickly reached the limitations of the format and upgraded to 35mm.

The two mostly P&S 35mm cameras I have clicked through many many rolls of film. Parties, events and outings, I'd always bring my camera. People were always asking for copies of my photographs. If I was there with my camera my friends would dub me 'official photographer' of whatever event was going on.

In 2001 I switched over to Digital with a Canon A20 2MP camera. Still very much a P&S, this allowed me to get exposed to post processing and the creation of Photo Albums, CD's and DVD's. A few thousand photographs were taken with that camera.

In 2005 I finally upgraded to a Canon S70. While still a pocketable P&S, this brought me full manual control, RAW file output and the ability to crop the 7.1MP images.

Come 2007 and a few 1000 images later I was becoming frustrated with the shutter lag, battery life and creative control of the S70. While wanting to upgrade to something that cost less than $500, I found that all my choices were 'almost like' a DSLR and finally decided why not get the real thing?

While most of the rest of the world were waiting on the release of the 450D, I picked up a overpriced 400D at a local Bestbuy and have not looked back.

9 months and a few 1000 clicks and $$$ later, I found myself wanting more and upgraded to a 50D. (later to a 5D2)

I'm now equipped to experiment in many types of photography and set aside at least 1 day or evening a week to practice my art.

Over the years I've become addicted to off camera flash almost always bring+add some of my own light to any scene. I'm more of a 'people shooter' liking to capture personalities and expressions then doing scenic or nature images.

My "day job" is in boring technology which affords me the ability to be "swimming" in computers, file servers, printers and camera gear. Photography gives me a creative outlet and gets me connected with PEOPLE and I do it more for the fun and joy it brings others. As such I shoot for free more often than I get paid and all that you see here is my free stuff.

Here in is a smattering of my everyday shooting, experiments and travels.

I always find it comical and entertaining to see which of my images get a lot of "views" and which ones don't. Ya gotta love the statistics offered with the now OBS 'pro account'.