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I've been a professional photographer on and off for almost 60 years. I first started working in photography in 1963 at the Army Aviation Test Office at Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards, California. I shot on glass plates using the Fairchild Flight Analyzer, developed the plates, and made contact prints. It was crude but an interesting first introduction to photography.



A few years later, I joined the Peace Corps and spent several years in a Venezuelan fishing village and the Amazon jungle in Ecuador. It was early in my Peace Corps service that I acquired my first SLR and became thoroughly engrossed in photography.



After my tour in the Peace Corps, I went to the New York Institute of Photography in New York City when it was a resident school. After a short time in Manhattan, where I shot all over the city, I acquired a diploma in Commercial Photography and headed off to my home in California.



Throughout the time I was working on my baccalaureate degree and going to graduate school, I shot weddings that paid for my education. When I had time off from school, I worked in a small trailer I converted into a dark room, where I processed B&W film and made enlargements.



I began teaching secondary school after finishing my university degree and was given a class to teach in photography. For more than 30 years, I've been involved in teaching photography and digital image editing. I owned a digital imaging and photo finishing company for more than 16 years. That's where much of my work was spent on the back end of photography.



Photography has never been a regular job for me, but it's been a delight and a great love. I wouldn't want to spend all my time in a full-time job in photography, and I'm quite certain that is the reason it's still a first love for me. In years past, my heroes in the photography world were the great photographers of all time, such as Ansel Adams,