I am a photographer and have liked to take pictures most of my life. My parents bought me a camera for one of my birthdays. I believe I was 7 or 8 when I received my first camera, the Kodak Pocket Instamatic 10. I started taking pictures of just about everything; I even took pictures of stop signs. It got to a point when my parents told me that if I were to continue taking pictures of stop signs they would not pay to have my pictures developed. I continued but was smart enough to take out the pictures that I did not think they should see. When they found some prints in the trash they reminded me that they were paying for the processing and I was to not throw any prints away, only if they had invented digital cameras when I was first learning to take photographs.