I started taking photographs as a kid with a Kodak Brownie and an Instamatic. My father, a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography, mostly shot with a 4x5 Speed Graphic. He taught me a lot about composition. He gave me my first 33mm, an old Zeiss Ikon Contina rangefinder. My first SLR was a Konica Autoreflex T which I purchased myself when I was about 13 using money earned from a paper route. As a scuba diver, I used the Nikonos film series from I through IV. I didn't switch to digital until 2000 and have since been through a...more
