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I am, obviously, Dan Williams. I was born Saturday, May 7, 1983, the day before Mother's Day, in Ventura, CA. The day before, my parents finished building a canoe, and tested it out in the harbor. And then a week later, they took me onto the pier, with waves crashing over the top. I've always loved the ocean, and water, but have a healthy respect for it. I won't surf, but I take great photos of surfers from the shore or pier.
A month before I turned 3, my sister was born, and then we moved to the San Bernardino Mountains for a few years. Our parents worked at a Christian camp, where my love of God's Creation (nature) grew, as did my Faith. I learned ping pong, shuffle board, giant bubbles, and stained glass, but didn't keep up with any of those skills.
For most of elementary school, we lived in Eureka, CA, and for Christmas in 2nd Grade, I got my first camera. It was one of those "reel to reel" film canister cameras, orange with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle transparency in the corner; didn't take long for me to learn how to remove it. But it was my first camera, and I loved it. I also got into computers this year (1992); my friend, Mike, and I would fax each other in Wingdings, and play Sim City 2000. Like any kid, I also got into cars: Hot Wheels and Micromachines, but I also started looking up each new years' cars, and drawing. My uncle worked fairly high up at General Motors, and sent me lots of brochures and magazines about tech development and concept designs. But I found more interest in the pictures than the articles and information. I was also diagnosed ADD, with an IQ scored at 127 despite my skipping all the easy questions and working on the more difficult ones...
Just before the end of 6th Grade, we moved again, this time to Wisconsin. The town was on a lake, with a Baptist Conference Center on one side, and a summer camp on the other. We spent the summer of 1996 at the summer camp (Camp Grow), and I got into nature photography. But Junior High caused depression and I lost out on a lot of my car interests, but I scored a 137.
