I HATED PHOTOGRAPHY...
I have always appreciated awesome landscapes and cityscapes, but could never imagine myself taking the pictures that I had found and admired. It had always felt like a big physical barrier I could not break to get the quality I had expected of myself.
This all changed when I started my battle against depression. Instead of pharmaceuticals, I bought a cheap camera and began hiking. I fell in love with photography on the trails, and that trail has led me way beyond Washington to places like China, Nepal, Dubai, Cambodia, and all over the United States.