I've enjoyed taking pictures for a good portion of my life. Even as a child, I can remember playing with my grandfather's old SLR and being facinated with all of the buttons and dials. In my late teens, my parents bought me my first SLR and I have been hooked ever since. It changed the way I looked at the world, even without a camera in my hand. I've learned not to take the beauty that surrounds us for granted. Everything from the wisp of a cloud to the complexity of a leaf is a potential picture to me. I have moved into the digital...more