Photography has been a passion of my since the first picture I sold to my moms neighbor of a mushroom. I built my own darkroom in our family garage when I was in eigth grade. Followed by being published in a obsure book on knife makers of old San francisco of a rare knife our neighbor owned. Our backyard was streams, ponds and fields where I learned the value of nature. Ansel Adams was an inspiration like many young photographers and did try to emulate that style as a young boy with my Canon ftb 35mb