I began taking photographs when I was sixteen years old and my father gave me my first real camera, a black body Nikkormat. I was attending a boarding school at the time and there was a darkroom located in a very large old building which also housed the classrooms and offices. I photographed sports, loving the way I could capture a moment in time, one that happens, then ends, thus memorializing the moment. I loved taking pictures then working in the darkroom, watching the images appear on the pa