I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.

I have a completely worthless degree: a BS in Photojournalism from Boston University (BU). With this degree, I suppose I could have gotten a job teaching grade school kids how to photograph their relatives, but knowing about B&W photo processing and developing and how to shoot a picture story is good basic info that every photographer should have.

Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc.

I don't shoot many corporate or commercial jobs, but when you do, you had better have someone helping who has done it before.

I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living.

After I discovered my degree in photojournalism would only get me a job in a camera store, I taught myself lighting. I read tons of magazines and books and studied the photos trying to figure out how they were done. I bought some flash equipment and played around until I figured out how to make a subject look as I envisioned it should look.

It is so much better to get the right exposure than to have to mess around later with Photoshop.