Becoming a Photograper

When I was about 6 years old my favorite super hero was Spider-Man. I collected all of his comics at the time. I thought that it was really cool that Peter Parker was a photographer by day and super hero in his spare time. I always wanted to be Spider-Man but never gave it a second thought that I actually wanted to be a photographer. I was more the musician type.

So fast forward a couple decades and after my rock star days seemed to be over I thought that I should start looking into starting on another profession since it didn't look like I was going to become the next George Michael. So for a few weeks I thought what could I do?? I came up with website design. It was up and coming. I loved art and thought design was cool. I knew how to draw well and it seemed that it was a good path. So I learned Dreamweaver and searched out for my first web design victim...I mean client. After that quick job I looked at my website (which is actually still up at www.adenaairportaccess.com) and thought "God, this sucks! I don't know how to design do I?". So I enrolled in a design school out in Monrovia, CA. I loved it. I studied under Carl Heinz who was a great teacher and one of the guys who come up with the Minolta Camera Corp ID in the late 80's. Through our assignments we sometimes needed pictures to make our designs that much more believable. And since buying stock photography became way too expensive for us students I thought about buying a camera. It was a painful decision because I had to first sell my digital 88 key piano first. Sniff, sniff... The camera was a 3.2 megapixel Canon. It cost me $800 at Best Buy at the time. So I began taking pictures and in about a year I realized that I loved taking pictures more than graphic design. So that's how I made my transition from super hero wanna be to happy digital photographer. Here's a few of my first pix.

Enjoy,
SV