I am a life-long photographer, starting with a hand-me-down Kodak Brownie camera as a kid going to camp in the beautiful Cascade Mountains of Washington State. In high school, Dad & I built a darkroom in the basement where I printed many of the B&W photos I took with twin-lens & 35mm SLR film cameras that were used in the annual yearbook. In college I produced concerts & outdoor festivals where I graduated to using 35mm slide film that I processed myself. My first years in Seattle were at a neighborhood newspaper where I ran the business operations including advertising along with acting as...more