Photography was a passion of mine long before getting into the design world. When we started the company, our first purchase was a Nikon D300, and we took it everywhere, snapping images of the shoreline in the Redwoods, cows munching in a field, and pheasant hunts on the prairie in middle America with my family. We even started a street-style photography blog in Portland – one of our first forays into the blogging world. I found it easy to snap the images but not so easy to approach random strangers and ask them to hold still and SMILE! while I clicked away. So, instead, we moved on to nature and still-life photography.