My favourite aspect of photography is, I think, the toys. My first was a Brownie Hawkeye. I bought the first Pentax 35mm SLR with TTL metering. I now shoot with a Canon 20D 8Mp Digital SLR (I love it!). I have an Epson 4490 flat bed scanner with transparency cover and the Epson 2400 printer.
To help pay for all of this I do Photo Restoration work and custom scanning/printing for local customers and I create event DVD's such as for Birthdays, Anniversaries and Memorials.
In my opinion, a digital darkroom makes creative photography open to a much greater number of people and at an affordable cost.

One of the greatest benefits of photography for the photographer is that it takes you to places and introduces you to situations which would otherwise have passed you by.

I am tone deaf, have trouble drawing my breath. I cannot dance nor sculpt. If it is my destiny to leave behind anything of artistic merit it will be through photography.