I got into photography with a point and shoot digital camera sometime around 2000. I had no idea about the fundamentals, rules of composition, etc., but I was having a great deal of fun snapping shots. Nature was (and still is) my favorite subject - the more colorful the better! It's said that there are more sunrise/sunset photos than there are people, and maybe it's true, but that doesn't lessen the enjoyment of sitting on a hillside trying to capture those amazing colors.

In 2005 I got my first dSLR, the Nikon D70. This camera opened up a new world to explore and pushed me into learning the fundamentals. Since then I've upgraded through the Nikon system to a D80 and then on to the D700 with each jump opening up new techniques to learn. Now I have super-close macro systems, complex lighting systems, sound triggers for high speed stuff, and a slew of other tricks, but what I still enjoy most is sitting on that hillside waiting for the sun to do its thing.