I recently decided to sort through my old photo archives and came across some shots I had taken years ago with a simple point-and-shoot. Looking at them now, I realized that these images are the reason I started taking photography more seriously in the first place.

This winter scene was captured with that little Olympus point & shoot camera — and I remember climbing up a tree to get the shot. I was sick with some kind of flu at the time and even had a fever, but the weather was so stunning that I simply couldn’t resist going out to photograph it.