I recall having my first camera at 10 and taking it to Girl Scout camp where I promptly left it behind. A few years later and being much more responsible, I received my first manual SLR at 15. It was a Minolta X370 that I still use. I took photo classes in high school and served on the newspaper as a photographer, thus beginning my foray into "real" photography.

Studying design in college (BFA Design) and graduate school (MFA Design), photography was always a part of my life but never the center. I have dabbled in classes periodically over the years but really revived my love of image making when I bought my first digital camera in 2001. I now have several digital cameras. My love of image making and pushing the limits of the possible has led me to doing macro work, pinhole studies with polaroid and most recently I have expanded into 4x5 format.