My best friend, Michael, took this photo of me playing with my camera in probably 1999 or 2000. We both had one of these old school cameras and loved to take them out in the woods behind my house and do photo shoots of each other. We have been doing these photo shoots since high school, since our time in Russia. These are definitely what fueled the fire for us both to become photographers.

Magic 312/365, The Beginning of Something, photo cred: Michael Boyd Stout, 1999-2000