My father gave me a camera when I was nine years old. It was just black & white film in those days; but I became hooked. In college I worked in the graphics department and used a Graflex 4x5 sheet-film press camera to cover campus events for the school paper. It was there I learned the chemistry behind turning film into prints. My first job in the field was Ship's Photographer aboard USC&GS Ship Oceanographer during its maiden voyage to South America and its subsequent eight-month around-the-world Global Scientific Expedition. I outfitted the entire ship's photo lab with both black & white and color film processing and printing for still and movie work. After that my interests shifted to computers, but I retained a life-long passion for the sea and photography. I hope you enjoy my work.