I was born and raised in the beautiful Pacific Northwest in the Seattle area. When I was 9 years old, my parents purchased my first camera, a Kodak Instamatic 110, for my birthday. The photos I took back then, were of friends, family, pets and the usual spider webs with dew on them. My cameras have evolved over the years, from the Kodak Instamatic to a Rollei 35 a camera I loved! I have used others and then my parents purchased another camera for me, an Olympus E-600 with some wonderful features. My husband purchased a Nikon D3200, for me a little over a...more