Welcome. My earliest memories of photography involve me holding the flash for my father while he photographed my older sisters. Ten years later, his old Kodak Retina IIIc became mine when I enrolled in my first photography class in high school. I was hooked, and my life forever changed. I accidentally became a professional photographer at the age of 19, when I went to work for a San Diego portrait studio while studying journalism at San Diego State University. I came to love being able to combine words and photographs to tell powerful and beautiful...more