Hi Hive account@daut44, I'm actually familiar with your name from poker! I'm "roachclips" on PokerStars, which is where I played the most. I doubt we played much together. I was mostly a $20 ABI turbo mttsng grinder, whereas you know what it's like to win $1,500,000 in a poker tournament at age 22. Haha :)

My interest in photography came in a couple stages, none of which being formal training. First I started taking pictures because I wanted to remember good times I was having with my wife-to-be starting about 6 years ago. The next phase was a year or two taking photos of the colors and culture of Cozumel, Mexico with my iPod touch to post on instagram because I thought it was beautiful. Once we decided to get married, I finally bought a DSLR camera to make sure we could get great photos of that time. I taught myself about technical and creative elements of photography by watching many hours of youtube videos and taking lots and lots of pictures!