A Little About Me

I was introduced to photography at a very young age. My father would give me a camera, a twin lens reflex Yashica D or a Rolleicord, and turn me loose with a roll of film. Later, when I had finished the roll, he would take me into the dark room and we would process it and see what I had gotten. There were no winners among the images of those days but the experience taught me and in the process I got some good personal time with my father. My father has passed and the cameras are gone but to this day, I can not smell fixer with out thinking of the magic of watching an image appear in the developer bath, of my father and our time in the dark room.

I held tight to film and continued shooting with it well into the digital era. I was lugging around my old Burke and James 4×5 while my wife was beginning her life as a photographer but with a digital camera. The day I switched we were at Shore Acres State park shooting flowers. As I stumbled about she was having the time of her life with the swarms of hummingbirds. The bright red bellows on my view camera meant I was getting buzzed by the little beauties but I was not getting many images. I quickly realized that my refusal to adapt with the technology was preventing me from advancing. I have not taken the big camera out since.