About: The Short Version
I have had a passion for photography for a long time. I used to think that my first experience with a camera goes back to my early college days when I borrowed a Pentax camera and photographed some scenic views in the Mountains near Big Bear. On the same roll of film I also took photos of the neighbor boys licking Lollipops and a Model T Ford behind a gas station in a small town on the outskirts of Redlands. That was it…hooked for life. Until I spent some time rummaging through a box of family photographs, I thought this was my first experience with a camera and there it was, a photograph of me at 10 years old with a Brownie camera around my neck. It was taken by either my Dad (an amateur) or my grandfather.( a serious aficianado of the craft. He had his own darkroom and made photographs that looked like etchings). After a couple of years studying the craft in college and working in my dark room, I took a job as a photographer traveling the country doing portraits in department stores like Sears. While it wasn’t National Geographic it was a start. I also went to work in a photographic lab to learn how the process worked. While the prints were going through the machines I was reading Adams and Fenninger and everything else I could find about taking and making quality photographs. in 1976 I began doing studio portraits in Coronado and through out the years have had the good fortune to photograph people from all over the world. They came to Coronado Island to enjoy the sand, surf and sun and wanted to have a memory of the wonderful time to take home with them. It was with great pleasure that I was able to create these beautiful images for them and ship them to all over the US as well as Canada, Austrialia, The Netherlands Sri Lanka and many other destinations throughout the world.
