When I was in my early twenties I went on my first big trip to Europe complete with backpack and a Kodak EKTRA 200 instamatic camera. I remember distinctively not wanting to look like a tourist and thinking that it would call too much attention to myself if I stopped to take photos. So I snapped off the required photos at the required places, such as the Eifel Tower, Windsor … [Read more...]

I never received any formal photographic training but I loved and practiced photography since my childhood. I started to work in film and television when I was sixteen years old and grew up learning the trade “hands on”, relying on the advice of some of the best photographers and producers in the annals of TV broadcasting, while working on the side of important figures in … [Read more...]

I have my father to thank for my lifelong interest in photography. My dad was not so much a photographer (although he had a talent he rarely made use of) as he was a gadget-hound. Dad always had to have the newest and best of any technology, whether it was cameras, hi-fis, video equipment or cars. When I was 17, he passed his entire Nikon FE camera kit to me and I still use … [Read more...]

My earliest memory of photography was watching my grandpa shooting landscapes somewhere around San Simeon when I was 6 in 1996. Another early photography memory that sticks out was at home, when lived in Los Angeles. I took my parent's Minolta SLR up into the hills above where I lived one day. I remember coming home with it in covered in dust. I'm sure I had no idea how to … [Read more...]