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ABOUT

Location

San Diego, California

Born	Haverhill, Massachusetts

Gender

Male

Member

Standard

Joined

December 2012

Interests

Photography

My first photographs were taken in 1968 with a toy camera I acquired from saving comic wrappers from Bazooka bubble gum. From that point on I was hooked. I went through flash bulbs, magic cubes 127 format film, polaroids, and eventually was my high schools yearbook photography.

I joined the US Navy in 1977 and went to the US Navy School of Photography, at that time one of the top ten ranked schools for photography in the United State.

During my 25 years of service as a photographer and photography officer in the Navy, I became a master black and white darkroom printer, and did every form of photography imaginable such as photo journalism, aerial, combat, forensic, industrial, macro, reconnaissance portrait, event, and reproductive/illustrative.

Later in my career, I was a photographic instructor, judge, and contributor to many imaging events and publications. In my last years in the navy, I was helping transition military photography from the film and chemical world to the digital. My learning curve has been and continues to be digital photography, especially post production work with the use of Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and other third party plugins. There is so much to learn and I'm enjoying the learning process.

Please feel free to rank my images accordingly. If you don't like something, please let me know and offer up your suggestions. I am here to learn from the amateurs and the professionals both. Giving me a 1 star and justifying it won't hurt my ego ;-).

I learned in my first few days on here that many don't like ratings less than 4.5 stars. And that friendly, constructive advice is sometimes met with sharp rebuttals. Knowing that, I'll keep my rating only to images that I feel are 4.5 or better. If you want an honest input, I'd be happy to give anyone's work a look and let you know what I honestly feel based solely on my experience and opinion derived from over 45 years of photographic experience.

I'm here to learn and share. I hope that's what everyone else is here for too.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Stamen shadows finished first in the member created contest "Lights and Shadows - Photography (e)"

Banff National Park reached "Recognized" status.

Banff National Park finished first in the member created contest "Landscape Photo Contest (b)"

Neighbor''s Cat reached "Recognized" status.

Swan Rush reached "All Time Best" status.

Swan Rush reached "Recognized" status.

Bow River reached "All Time Best" status.

Blue Hyacinth Macaw reached "All Time Best" status.

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