'54 plus 65 January 17, 2019 marked 65 years to the day that my parents gifted me a Kodak Brownie camera on my 4th birthday, and here’s my first photograph: a view of the party as seen from my seat of honor at the head of the table. Center right my older brother holds a camera in hand as, just behind, my dad steadies two cameras close to his body as he uses a handheld meter to measure the light level. We were a family of picture takers, and I was being brought into the fold. To mark that anniversary I posted here and on Instagram a photo a day for each year of my imagemaking: