Camera Frenzy

So I have a blog. I blog about nothing, really. Let's face it. No one in the world particularly cares about the life of a 17-year-old in the mid-west.
One of the main reasons I made a blog though, was to post photos. I wanted another site to put my photos on.
I love photography.
Now before you get all judgy-judge, I'm not just another hipster teenager with a spiffy camera (although it is pretty spiffy), that her parents bought for her (they didn't), who takes photos of her friends (but I do do that sometimes). I'm almost positive that I want a career in photography. I've been seriously interested in it since about the age of 12. When I was 13 I got my own digital camera for my Bat Mitzvah. Before that I used my brother's and before that I used the family camera. My first camera was an Olympus SP510UZ. It's not too shabby and I think it was a good choice for someone of my age at the time. Of course my pictures weren't amazing, although some of them were surprisingly good, I got a DeviantART and started posting on the internet.

Olympus SP510UZ

Even before the age of 12 I was interested in photography. I think it was JUST before digital cameras, so...early 2000's maybe? Or like, when film cameras were kind of digital. They used film, but the zoom was electronic. Hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about. Anyway, I don't know how old I was, 7 or 8, but I decided that I would take our camera everywhere and just take pictures of everything. I think that lasted a day. My mom and I were out and about and I took pictures of stuff. About a year or two ago I found a roll of film in my room that needed to be developed. So I took it to CVS and when I got it back I realized that the photos were the ones I took that day. They were in black and white and they were actually pretty good. I'm proud of my 8-year-old self.

Pentax K20D

I currently use a Pentax K20D. IT IS MY CHILD. I got it from my dad's friend, who happens to be a professional photographer. He's very good, does wildlife, check him out :Wild Light.
 Anyway, he was selling the Pentax because he was getting a newer model and I snatched it. I got it for a lot cheaper than if I were to buy it new, even though it was still relatively expensive, but I paid for it all. He gave me a lot of extras (like a bajillion manuals), except I don't have a case. This can be very cumbersome.
I have 9 cameras altogether. 4 of which I actually use/work: Pentax K20D, Olympus SP510UZ, Pentax 35 mm, and Lomography Fisheye 35 mm. 3 of them probably work, one of those was my grandfather's: a Nikon EM. It's decently old and probably works, but it should be cleaned and I don't have a manual. The next 2 of this group of 3 I got from my uncle, one is a Canon G-3 QL. He thinks he got it in East Germany. And the other is a Zenit (or Zenith) 12 that he bought in Russia when it was still the Soviet Union. The last two cameras I own are little garage sale finds that my dad picked up for me. He got them both for $5. One is a Brownie Holiday camera and the other is a Vagabond 120, both from the 50's I think. I'm not sure they work and I only figured out how to open one of them.
So there's my story. I post my photos on facebook, deviantART, and flickr and hopefully here too! I'll get up photos of my other camera's at some point, but now I should go do homework.