Years

I buy a Nikon Coolpix 775 and can start shooting digital images of a reasonable quality

I buy the brand new pro grade Minolta 7. Still the best camera experience of my life!

I get my hands on an Agfa ephoto 780. My first ever real experience with digital

I was lucky enough to be able to travel to Japan. Didn't buy much photo gear, but took a lot of pictures.

I buy a Minolta 500si as a backup for the 7000i, which has some oddities due to a brief meeting with saltwater.

Our second boy, Bjarke, is born. Double fun and double trouble, but also double the subjets to shoot. I buy a Minolta 7000i, which was a much better, slicker and faster camera than my 7000.

We have our first child, Magnus, which opens a whole new world of subjects to shoot. A few weeks after his birth I travel to Greenland, which is a very good place to study Arctic biology...

I buy a Minolta 7000. Autofocus and winder! I am in heaven, but back to square one on lenses

I buy a little gear when I find something useful and inexpensive - mostly used - and spend most of my money on film and development, drifting into color negatives and slides.

I buy a Minolta XG9 as a replacement for the XM, which breaks down with a shutter error.

I buy a used Polaroid SX-70 Land camera - the fancy model with fake leather on the top - and love the images it takes.

My B/W darkroom skills are quite good now, and I can get the results I want. I like gritty and contrasty and typically shoot at 400-1600 ISO on fast film and get a lot of grain.

I shoot away, still experimenting, but also becoming the family's event photographer

I start studying biology at the University of Copenhagen and shoot a lot of nature shots.

My Minolta XM is stolen during an Interrail train trip from France through Spain to Portugal.

I buy a Minolta 110 Zoom for my then girlfriend, now wife, Birgitte. This odd contraption is a fairly advanced zoom camera that shoots size 110 instamatic film in cassettes.

I buy a used Minolta XM, and buy several finders and a lot of accessories soon after.

I draw a lot in this period and my drawings move from banal kid's drawings to something a little more experimental and abstract.

I start buying bulk film (HP5 and Tri-X mostly) and spool it into used cassettes that I get for free at my local photo dealer.

I develop my own film and print on a small enlarger in the bathroom of my childhood home.

I attend a photo class in school and see my teacher's OM-1 with a winder. Oh, man, do I want one?

I shoot some slide films that my father had with the camera and buy a few more - Kodachrome 64 is what I choose. But man!

I take possession of my dad's Minolta SR-7 with a 55mm f/1.7 and get my hands on a 135mm f/2.8.

I shoot with my parent's Instamatic cassette film camera with disposable flash bulbs - the kind that almost melt when they pop.