Welcome to my web page. I've been taking photographs since I was a kid. My dad gave me my first 35mm (Pentax K1000) when I was 16 and I was hooked: I drove everyone nuts, did yearbook, etc. I studied photography seriously in college but I decided that I'd get married rather than finish my studies, because at 21 we know everything (what I wouldn't give for a time machine - I'd still get married, but I'd finish school)! So I put serious camera work aside long enough to be a working wife and mother to two boys. Like all good mothers I used vacations, birthdays...more