A lifelong student of the arts, Steve first picked up a Nikon film SLR in the 80's while in high school. His first camera was the Nikon FG, but his favorite film camera was the Nikon FM2 because of its abolute control through its manual settings of the image making process. He transitioned to Canon digital cameras, but only because he was not happy with the results of the then new Nikon digital cameras...especially the background noise. Steve has fine art images of flowers, architecture, and landscape scenes available for purchase. His influences are Jim Zukerman, Art Wolfe,...more