I picked up my first camera when I was in elementary school. My parents bought me a 110 which was glued to my side throughout my childhood. I was always taking pictures of my family, friends, and just about anything that would pose for me. Whenever I'd come home from camp, or an event I would pile high on the kitchen table all of my rolls of film asking my parents to develop them and they happily always did. I started working for a portrait studio in Anchorage, Alaska at 19. There I took family portraits, High School Senior, children, & wedding...more