My interest in photography began about 30 years ago when I received a Kodak Disc camera as a gift and began taking pictures of my dog, a sheltie named Chipper. After the first disc exposed, mailed-in, and 15 color prints of my dog arrived in the mail box, I was hooked. A few years later, I had a Canon SLR and a homemade dark room set up in my parents' basement from items acquired at various yard sales. Seems like such a long time ago now that everything is digital. In the meantime I received my Photography degree from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, got...more