"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking" - Brooks Anderson
		As a photographer, my goal has always been to "capture" life. I remember my first camera. I was 12 years old, and I mowed lawns for a couple months to raise the $30 I needed for a Vivitar 35mm point-and-shoot camera at a nearby Walgreens. I loved that camera & I used to take it everywhere. My "formal" introduction to photography, where I learned things like aperture settings, depth of field, and composition, came almost 20 years ago during my senior year in high school. I remember we had to pinch pennies for me to buy my first "real" camera - a Yashica FX-3 Super with a 50mm lens. When I wasn't out taking pictures for phot assignments, I was usually hanging out at Art's Cameras Plus, on the lookout for used equipment. Been taking pictures ever since.