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Photography has been a hobby of mine ever since I was a little kid. From the day my dad bought me my first canon film camera when I was around 8 years old. I spent a couple years in Quebec, Canada and my interest in photography grew again. There were so many beautiful things to photograph that I really started to appreciate more of my surroundings.

My first digital camera was about 10+ years ago when I lived in California and it was less than VGA quality! But it was still so amazing to see the shots. Although digital was available I reverted back to film during a year of photography in middle school. It wasn't until 2003 that I was shooting with a 5 megapixel Sony CyberShot during those two years in Canada. It was a great camera and I learned a lot from shooting w/ it albeit extremely simple.

Since then I've owned a Rebel XT and am currently shooting with the Rebel XTi. I hope soon that someone will decide they do not want their Canon 5D anymore and that they will just give it to me as a gift! Unlikely, but I can dream can't I?

I have an addictive personality. Once something really sparks my interest I spend the next hours, days, months constantly obsessing about it until I can do it well. This can range anywhere from skating when I was a kid to computer games (Dang Counter-Strike...) to a Rubik's cube, etc. The list goes on. It is just my nature to be an extremely curious person and I seek answers to all my questions almost immediately.

I hope that photography will lead me to something bigger and greater than just a hobby. But in the mean time while I go to school full time and work towards a degree and hopefully Law School eventually- it will just have to remain a hobby. If a great financial opportunity regarding photography presented itself I would have to evaluate my current situation and probably debate for a long time. More people are shooting than ever in history. There is a lot of competition out there.

I have so much to learn about photography I hope that many of my friends and contacts can help me become the photographer I hope I am. Flickr is amazing because so many of my photos were inspired by someone else. I try to replicate their shots to a "T" so I can learn exactly what they did and how they did it. I hope to inspire others as photography has so much to offer those who come in contact with it.