I began using the camera to shoot feature stories and photo essays for newspapers way back when. The more pictures, the less writing. Pictures were fun, writing was homework. In the era of black and white, being a photogapher was like playing a sport, combining quick reflexes to focus, a simultaneous calculation of light, the voyeuristic thrill of the scene framed in the eyepiece of the camera... Only to then wait until the next day to see what you had.  Things have changed, but it's still called photography.

 

I migrated into video cameras which allowed me to pick from hundreds of video frames to grab as stills; countless choices and nuance of expression.

My photographic perspective changed from making the picture real to making it art.  

 

I learned techniques for multiple imaging by scanning and merging old family photos into a multi-generational 20th-Century Family Montage. Then I marketed the idea for birthdays, anniversaries, any occasion... Along the way I began restoring old photos.

 

I experimented with many Photoshop effects, Warholing them into countless Personalized Portraitures, co-creating each piece with the client. 

 

I had an art gallery and frame shop in Reisterstown, Maryland, where I created and printed pictures to look more like paintings;  and where I learned how important framing is to any picture, and not  just to hold it on the wall.

 

I have since closed the gallery, and retired back into the studio, this time staging whimsical scenes with animal figurene... simply for the fun of it.