Hello to all my new friends at Pixels! I am Tim A. Gardiner. I have been into photography and videography my whole life. Actually, before I was born. My parents had the very first color video camera available in the 1950s and 60s. I grew up watching those videos they had produced as we traveled around the world while growing up. ( I have digitized those old videos and still have all of them.) My dad was in the Air Force and I was born in the Philippines because of his enlistment time. I joined the US Navy in 1982 and I...more