I took my first photos with my family's Kodak Brownie I believe. The first camera I purchased was a Minolta SRT 101 while I was in the military in 1973. Then, in the 1990's while working on a nest box program, I purchased Nikon equipment to record what I was doing. This resulted in an interest in nature photography starting with 35mm, then medium format, and finally moving up to 4x5 large format. At this point, life kind of got in the way and I quit photography. Then in 2015, my interest in photography returned. I moved up to digital equipment and have been doing various aspects of nature photography since.