I've enjoyed taking photos for as long as I can remember. As a little girl, I carried my camera around snapping photos of random things, using the money I had saved to buy film and have my photos developed. When I went off to college, I gave it up (not sure why). I would pick a camera up every now and then and shoot some snapshots, never realizing how much I actually enjoyed taking photos. I never thought of photography or creativity as something that would allow me to be independent and get a good job, so I studied to be a computer programmer, thinking that was the best...more