Believe it or not, I didn’t become interested in photography until I was in my 30s.
Until 2001, I used to tell people (truthfully!) that I couldn’t take a decent picture to save my life. Aside from a brief flirtation as a child, I didn’t really have any interest in photography and knew nothing about it. In fact, I was so ignorant about photography that I remember looking through a mail order catalog and, upon seeing that you could buy a camera without a lens, remarked to myself “Who on earth would buy a camera without a lens?”
My real interest in photography began with a trip that my wife and I took to Israel in 2001. I bought a simple point-and-shoot camera to take along with me and document the trip. It was on that trip that I found that I enjoyed taking images. I experimented with that camera for a few years before finally purchasing my first DSLR camera in 2008, when I was nearly 40.
Since then, photography has been my passion. I’ve invested time and money in equipment, training and a lot of practice and, I like to think, I’ve gotten better at it over the years. 🙂