I grew up in the Monterey bay/ San Francisco bay area. This is a picture I took years ago on my brother's porch. I absolutely fell in love with photography when I was younger. You see, my grandfather had given me a Cannon 20D with a few 55-180mm Sigma and Cannon lenses. Along with a ton of other odds and ends. Basically everything you'd need to start doing some actual photography. So I set out to it immediately, and I took that thing everywhere. I had had digital cameras and what not through out the years. But nothing like this. I was totally in love with my new art form. It became everything and all I did all the time. Anywhere I went I had my camera.