It all started when...

I was still in high school - first shooting with the little Kodak box cameras and then graduating to my father's Leica rangefinder.  The rangefinder is what I used when I took photography and advanced photography courses in college.

After college I didn't do much photography while I was in law school, although I did shoot some.  It wasn't until I was out of school and had an opportunity to buy my first SLR - a Minolta - that I began to get really serious.  I moved from the Minolta to a Contax RTS II and started collecting serious Zeiss and comparable lenses in the mid 1980's.

I bought my first digital camera in 1999.  It was a Canon Powershot S10 (which I still have) and I've liked Canon equipment ever since.  A Canon 10D was my first DSLR in 2004 and I upgraded to a 7D in 2010. In the meantime, I'd started to acquire some serious glass, including several "L" lenses.

I got my first full frame DSLR in 2014 with a Canon 6D and traded in my 7D for the 7D Mark II a year later.  In 2017, I started experimenting with mirrorless cameras.  First with an Olympus OM-D E-M10, then a Canon M3 before I found the mirrorless family I like with the Fujifilm X series.  I now shoot with a Fuji X-E2S, a Fuji X-Pro2 and Fuji X-T2, usually with the wider angle Fuji primes.

Also in 2017, I began shooting film again and I’ve experimented with 35mm, medium format and large format (4x5) cameras of various makes including Contax, Pentax, Fuji, Canon, Toyo and others. I develop my own film in a darkroom in our hay barn (less than ideal from a dust standpoint) and then scan with an Epson v850 flatbed.

My usual subjects are people, landscapes, buildings and nature, but I'll dabble a little with artistic shots.

. . . and then moved on when

I majored in Journalism and was editor of our college newspaper - I guess I never really lost the writing bug.  A few years later, I talked our law firm into buying a couple of IBM Displaywriters in 1983.  I'd come in at night and write short stories and articles (none of which were ever published).  That was the genesis of a combination of two things that I liked as much as photography - writing and technology.

A few years later, I bought my first PC and installed Windows 3.1 on it.  It wasn't long before I added a modem and joined CompuServe and then AOL along with roaming the Internet via Telnet, Gopher and FTP.  Then the World Wide Web was born and became really accessible as ISPs proliferated along with the first really popular browsers like Mosaic and Netscape Navigator.

It wasn't long before I was writing web pages - mostly with a text editor that I still use from time to time.  I wrote the first few versions of webpages for our community theatre's website and emailed the guys at Yahoo.com and asked them to index the pages under Theater as I recall.  That's how small the web was back then.

From time to time I've played around with other web sites, including one for our horse boarding business, and with posting photographs.  And so . . . here we go again.