From this humble beginning, I have spent the past 46 years exploring the exciting and ever-changing realm of photography. My career as a photographer coincided with the widespread availability of single lens reflex (SLR) cameras in the 1960's. I was starting my junior year of college (Fall, 1963) when Pentax introduced the H1a model which was a fully operational SLR at a budget price. When I first tried it out in the store, I was enthralled as I watched the image go in and out of focus in the camera's viewfinder while I focused the lens. Even though I knew little about photography, for the next six years I traveled and took a lot pictures wherever I went.

 Eventually I concentrated on three films: Kodachrome II (later 25), Ektachrome, and the original Agfachrome CT-18 which, like Kodachrome, was a proprietary process film that had to be sent to Agfa for processing. It was my understanding that these films were the most stable form of color photography and therefore images made with them would be the most likely to survive over time. This proved to be true and today nearly all my transparencies which have not been lost, strayed, or destroyed retain much of their original color.