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I have been interested in photography since I was a young boy trying to enter a photo contest put on by the Camera Shack. I accidentally [sic] the wrong contest theme and was saddened. However this accident gave birth to a picture of my grandma I cherish to this day, a picture I was never able to take again. This started my love for preserving the past into the future.

When I was attending Stamford, I took the B&W photography class in Grade 12 where I had the pleasure of using a dark room for the first time. I bought a Praktica MTL 5 with a nifty 50, an 18-something, and 70-something zoom lens from my Uncle for $100. It was so exciting to develop your own film and to play with exposures.

A few years passed by and many digital cameras later, I bought my first SLR, a Canon XTI. I put about 75,000 shots on that camera from December to June. I like to take multiple shots in a row, a lot. Usually what I do is combine all these shots into a single montage at the end of an event, and attach some kind of song that is related. As the pictures fly by at 1/8th speed, the beat almost always matches up to the song.

I first started out taking the majority of my pictures at night alone in Winter and Spring. When it got more hospitable outside there were many long walks with my camera and my iPod. For a few months I was listening to Terry Goodkind’s “Sword of Truth” series on Audiobook. This made my adventures through the various parks ethereal at points. The pictures I captured stuck in my mind as bookmarks of each chapter.

In June, I retired the Canon XTI and replaced it with the newer; better Canon T1i, which did HD Video! After taking this camera on tour to a ridiculous amount of car shows in Southern Ontario, I retired her in September with only 50,000 shots on the camera. 20,000 of those exposures were taken over a 3 hour period in one sitting. I was taking pictures from the amber glow of the sun oozing out of the ground, to it being a beach ball of fire in the air.

I took a break from pictures from October to April to focus more on my day job, which is programming. It seemed like my hobby would tap into my jobs pool of resources and it was affecting my work. Once I had that under control, I bought a Canon 40D used on Ebay.

It broke a week after I got it. Now with a new shutter, I frequently abuse its ability to take 6.5 pictures a second.