This book is my journey as a amateur/professional photographer. It is a collection of images I have taken over my life and some of the graphics I have created as a Graphic Designer using the images I took. I have had a camera in my hands since I was a child. My grandfather gave me an old slide film camera as a young adult. I thought it was the coolest thing I had seen but had no idea how it operated. It sat in my closet for many years and as the technology was changing I eventually threw it away. Sometime during college I got my first 35mm point and shoot camera. I eventually would upgrade to a Pentax K-1000 SLR camera and from there on I was hooked. I was an amateur at best, only able to afford lower end cameras. Over this time I began to develop a keen eye and sense of what made a good image composition. In the mid 1980’s I splurged and upgraded to a Pentax P-3. It was a major step up in my gear. I always have bought two types of lenses for each type cameras I would own. One short focal length, 35-70mm, for close-up photography and one long range 80-300mm. I would try my hand at all sorts of photo challenges from portrait photography, live action motor sports to nature and landscape photography. Professionally I had been working with many studio photographers as a creative director and graphic designer on various photo shoots for many years. As technology progressed, I would eventually give in to the dark side and would go fully digital. In 2002 I bought my first digital camera a Nikon 4500. It was a great little camera that took high quality images. I thought it was the coolest thing because the body swiveled to adjust the angles of the shots. It was a great traveling companion that didn’t take up a lot of room. The novelty of the Nikon would wear off after a couple years. In 2000, I was working now as a graphic designer running an in-house printing department for a large manufacturer of marine hardware. We decided we wanted to bring the product photography process in house. A photographer I was working with suggested that I look into the Olympus digital line. We bought the Olympus Cameida C-1400 camera and started our own table top in house product photography studio complete with three Lowell DP 750 watt tungsten hard lights and Chimera soft boxes. In 2006, I bought my first digital SLR with removable lenses, a Olympus E-500. I was now married to the four thirds format. The interesting fact about this format is the sensor doubles in focal length to equate to normal 35mm focal lengths. Therefore a lens with a 12-60 focal length equates to 24-120mm in 35mm terms. I would upgrade several times over the years, next going to the Olympus E-520 in 2009, then the E-30 in 2011. These cameras took me through the youth soccer years. I sat on the sidelines photographing my daughters and their teammates from U-8 to U-19 travel soccer and multiple vacations to interesting scenic locations. My primary lenses were an Olympus 12-60 (24-120mm) f2.8 and the Olympus Zuiko 70-300 (140-600mm) f4.5-5.6. In 2018, I decided I wanted to upgrade again and this time I treated myself to the Olympus OMD E-M1 Mark II along two f2.8 pro lenses, the 12-40 (24-80mm) and the 40-150 (80-300mm). This camera changed to the micro four-thirds format, thus the reason for all new lenses. In 2020, I upgraded to my current gear, the Olympus OMD E-M1 Mark III. In addition I added a 2x doubler. I am loving the images that are being produced with this set up. My photography life has gone from amateur fun in Florida to professional and now continues as a passionate hobby in the mountains of North Carolina. I hope you enjoy my photo journey through-out the following pages. Richard A. Cozier