I guess my first experience with a camera came about 25 years ago when I was given my parents old Kodak Instamatic camera to take along to summer camp. The camp experience wasn’t too great but the photos I took were good. Not that I knew what I was doing…I was twelve. I don’t think I picked up a camera again until I was in tech school where black and white photography was part of the course I was taking. That was when photography really started to interest me. I took on extra photography projects and spent many hours in the darkroom.
Since then, through my work and personal experiences, I have found that my favorite kinds of photography usually doesn’t include people…well at least in the traditional sense. Part of my day job (yes, I have a day job too) is commercial photography and videography with a local school division. I photograph students, staff, buildings, and events for publications and video productions. Although I enjoy that type of photography for work, for fun I tend to throw all my gear in the car and head out of town on my own to see what I can find. If it happens to be at night, around a full moon, all the better.
