After a lengthy absence from any serious photography, I decided to jump back into it a couple of years ago, because I truly love taking pictures. Moreover, every aspect of photography. Having first wet my appetite for taking pictures while looking through the viewfinder of a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye, with graduating points to a Kodak 110 Instamatic, Olympus FTL, Minolta SRT101, then ending with a Canon A-1. Even purchased equipment and setup my own darkroom. What a blast! All self-taught, mainly through trial and error, but also through the Time-Life Books:...more