Was photography already a hobby or passion of the young boy Peter Gilbert Balazsy? No. Not at all. In fact, I only picked up a "serious" camera for the first time about 5 or 6 years ago at the age of 50 ! In fact it was the problem of curiosity that actually got me into photography. I'd look at all those great "cover-girl" shots on magazines and wonder, what set them apart from snapshots and made them so great and obviously different? It always seemed a puzzle. I could never seem to figure out. Being the very curious, technical type guy that I am, ...I was chatting about this with a couple of friends one night while we were sitting around a local watering hole. ...So both of these guys offered to lend me their 35mm SLR cameras to experiment with. I was just starting to try it all out, when a local co-ed I knew asked me if I'd do some shots for her to build a portfolio. I quickly painted a back drop, and got some cheap lights. We shot all day. I was sweating bullets! It was a real "baptism by fire."