I started my life-long love affair with photography as a 10 year old with an Instamatic camera, gifted me by my dad, who was shooting 8mm home movies of our family vacations, our cross-country moves and many National Parks. I will forever be grateful that Dad felt it important to seek out beautiful places and encourage me as a photographer. I have never stopped traveling and shooting. I also got pretty good at editing and splicing all of those home movies. At 19, after my first visit to Mt. Tamalpais in West Marin, California, I scrambled home to Sacramento...more