My name is Xain.  I have been taking pictures as far back as I can remember.  My first camera was a discarded 35mm in 1984.  I was 5 years old, and I found the camera, the film, and the flash bulb in a closet one day, and took my first roll of film.  That camera was already outdated when it was found, and the flash was such that it only fired four times, then needed to be replaced, so funding these shots got to be rather expensive.  Later on, I got myself a Polaroid camera.  I still had the bug, and loved taking pictures, but as a jobless teenager, funding the film was rather difficult.  When I was around 15 or so, I was gifted a Minolta DSLR.  Now I was hooked.  The removable lens, the more affordable film, the fun little film canisters that the pros use, the bug bit me hard.  I took shots of everything, and anything.  I had found my passion.  Most unfortunately, the girl I was dating at the time dropped my beloved camera, and the lens mount broke.  Off to the repair shop I went, but the repair was going to cost almost as much as a whole new camera, and I could barely afford the film I was buying.  I was without a camera for several years after that.  I never forgot my love for taking pictures, I would spend time at the camera counter at every big box store I went to, learning all about the different makes and models, yearning for one myself.  Then, one day, years later it happened.  I got myself my very own, brand new DSLR.  A Nikon D3300.  I have taken more photos with this camera than I thought one person could.  I really love film, but if I were to have purchased the equivalent amount of film it would have taken to fuel my passion, I would be living in a cardboard box.  Just me, and my camera.