I began taking photographs when I received my first Brownie camera from my father at the age of ten. Later I was given a Pentax and really started to have fun. I went on to fall in love with Nikons, then anything with a Zeiss or Leica lens . I once asked a photographer friend 'What's the best camera to have?' He replied 'The one you have with you.' Most of these images were taken with an iPhone and others are photos of my paintings . I studied French and Spanish language and literature as an undergrad and it was then that I was influenced by the French and Spanish poets...more