Born into the tough and uncertain streets of post-communist Poland, raised in the ghettos of Union, NJ, now a successful and hardworking stem cell scientist in sunny SoCal.

The first computer I ever owned was a Atari 2600 with a QWERTY keyboard and a tape drive back in Poland. At the tender age of 7 it was also my first foray into piracy since most our games were bootleg copies bought at the local kiosk or a copy made using a dual tape deck. At times it took half a day to load a game, where we would press play on the Atari, leave for school to have our game load moments later after we returned from school. Being a kid, with way too much energy, I broke many a joystick and would often find myself drooling over joysticks at the local markets, saving every single zloty of my allowance just to buy one.

My first real computer was not until I moved to the US. It was a Gateway 2000. It was a beast of a machine, containing inside it's delicious guts a Pentium I clocked at a roaring 120Mhz, a beastly 16MB of RAM and gargantuan hard drive of 800 megabytes. I was 9 at that time. Not long after I would join the world wide web using my 36.8kbps serial modem to connect to America Online 2.0. By the age of 10 I was already making websites using HTML and scouring the internet for all the gifs I could find.

I have always loved technology and my love for it only grew stronger once I moved to the US. I found that my fellow schoolmates here were a lot meaner and close minded, and I found solace at the then non judgemental world wide web, embraced by the warm glow of my computer screen. It's not as sad as it seems.

Who am I now? I am a biotech scientist working for a multinational German owned conglomerate. What do I work on specifically you ask? Stem cells and stem cell media. Am I qualified? Perhaps. I was a pre-med/bio and pre-law/poli-sci at NYU.

I am also an avid photographer, and in my arsenal I hold a Nikon D50, a Lumix GF-1 and Canon T2i but in the end it doesn't matter what camera you have. How good a picture is depends on the photographer and not the camera. And as Chase Jarvis has once said, "the best camera is the one that's with you." Or conversely, as Zack Arias "The best camera is the one you left at home" Both hold very true in world of photography. So make sure you always carry a camera with you.

But besides a pretty face behind the lens I am an avid gamer, computer nerd, cook, and all around geek.