Steve Edwards

I am a hobbyist photographer...I enjoy landscapes and trying to capture what I see around me. My wife and I travel quite a bit and while I do like to chronicle our trips, we don't very often find ourselves the subjects of my photos. I am not a purist with regard to showing what the camera saw or see's... I like Photoshop to bring out or show off what I see. When I was about 10 years old I found a 35mm SLR camera (a Pentax K1000 with a fixed 45mm lens) while hiking Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire...this was the beginning of my hobby, one where my level of interest has varied from time to time throughout my life, but has always been a part of me. My skills and interest both have evolved since then, but the biggest influencer for me probably has been the evolution of photography and technology into digital. For example, the early years I used film only as there was no "digital", and then I became interested in digital cameras well before they were considered mainstream, and well before they could be considered good even, and then I found Photoshop, which again, my interest and abilities have evolved. I really like digital photography mainly because the basic principles of film photography are mostly in-tact, but the results are instant, and the cost is nearly free. I have no photography training and everything I know is from trial and error, experimenting, and reading. I enjoy taking, editing, and viewing my photos - of course, and probably just as much, I enjoy using Photoshop to see and create some interesting results. For me, this is about capturing what I see, and being able to experience it again and again. Unfortunately I don't have any photos that I took with that found Pentax, or a Minolta SLR that I worked summers and saved for as a teenager - not even a couple of prints that won local photography contests as a teen. I have used about 6 different digital cameras over the years.