I have been a photography buff for many years. When I first started college, I studied photography. After losing easy access to a darkroom, my passion gradually subsided. For a little while, I sustained it by using the Chula Vista Library's darkroom, and I hauled a box of chemicals back and forth. Eventually, my passion for graphic design overwhelmed my passion for photography, but it was always lurking just under the surface.

I always dreamed of being able to put a darkroom in my home. About the time that became remotely possible ("Hey, that closet under the stairs is about the right size for a tiny darkroom!"), something else happened: digital cameras reached the point where they produced adequate pictures, and my computer became the darkroom (minus the smelly chemicals).

I had the good fortune to work with digital cameras at the dawn of their popularity explosion. I started working at Ted's Camera Supplies in September 2005. About a week after I started, my boss plopped the oddly shaped DC120 on my desk, and said, "See if you can get the pictures off that camera."

Using Kodak's SDK, I wrote a little program that enumerated the images and copied them to your hard drive. I turned this over to someone else (I started concentrating on scanners), and it became the basis for the first prototype of the shell extension in WindowsME and WindowsXP that shows you a view of your camera's contents.

Basically Im the best there is

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