One of my oldest memories was the yearly outing of my family going to the State Fair in North Carolina... I didn't say "fondest" memories because any outing with my family was at best tedious, and at worst a fiasco...

As soon as I was a teenager I would use my camera as an excuse to ditch my parents, and go hunting for shots. I loved using an old Hasselblad camera, because I could hold the camera at chest height or lower, look down to focus on my subject, and then look up so that when the moment was right, I could trip the shutter while looking directly at my subject, and maintaining eye contact.