The photographic life has always had my number. I got my first serious taste of it in high school, wandering solo up into the Catalina mountains Nikkormat in hand, excited when the Arizona skies would finally open up and turn the granite canyons of Sanmaniego into natural waterparks of falls and pools. The long shutter speeds of the camera saw what I only sensed - and when the black and white tones appeared in the tray of developer I'd marvel at the blurred gesture of the streams against the grainy texture of the stone. I was hooked.

Further, I sense that the ever-evolving craft of photography is at a hugely exciting point. There has never been a better time to explore the excitement of picking up a camera and seeing all there is to see - after all, people are primates, and we primates are visual creatures by nature.