This picture marks the day I took photography as a serious hobby.
But let us rewind to how got there. My late Godfather, was an avid phtographer and film maker on top of his day job as pharmaceutical agent and pharmacist. He gave me a film camera for my eighth or ninth birthday. That camera planted the seed of my interest in photography, although it was ruined before I learned how to use it. I got a couple of cameras afterwards but have no recollection of anything I did with them.
Years later, on the day I graduated from college, my uncle gave me a Minolta SLR and a Panasonic VHS camera.
A decade later, I bought a Nikon D70 just before my son was born and
After years of attempts at photography, I joined a photography workshop at Yosemite lead by a local phtographer and photigraphy professor at Merced Community College. It was beginners class, although I quickly realized that all the other members of the group had more sophsticated understanding of cameras. On arrival I switched RAW and manual setting and never looked back ever since.