Like so many I started taking pictures with an old camera I was sometimes allowed to use from my parents. An old rangefinder type of thing from the sixties. I don't remember the brand. Making pictures was scarce, it was the film age. I bought myself an SLR, a Petri GX-1, when I was around 14 or so. Loved it, but buying the rolls of film and developing the pictures was expensive, so it never really took off and I didn't chase the dream. Later I messed around with scanning and digitally editing pictures on my computer, I bought a little compact 3.2 megapixel digital camera, that solved the costs of producing images and my photography kind of entered a new era for me. Slowly my interest for editing pictures turned into a new fascination for photography. A new Nikon DSLR camera followed and another one... and later a studio was build and a business was founded. Though I never persued making photography my big money maker, mainly because it feels to me more like art than business.
Nowadays I mostly shoot with vintage lenses on modern Sony systemcamera bodies. Vintage lenses add character. To me a picture, in order to be a good one, needs to represent the feeling I got in that exact moment. Explaining the why of me pressing that button. To capture the moment the look in someones eyes suddenly show a deeper self. Showing the sun giving that little flare that represents the warmth of that sunbeam. It doesn't need to be perfect, photography wise. Actually... I'm convinced imperfection can add tremendous to the feeling you get from an image.