Music occupied my early years. I studied music in college with pipe organ as my primary instrument and playing woodwinds (clarinet, sax and flute) in ensembles and orchestras. After years of studying and playing at least 32 hours a day I felt overwhelmed,

Somewhere in the musical maelstrom, I picked up a camera. The photography bug grew until it pushed out the music. After college, I spent 2 years in a photography trade school. I worked in a camera store while going to school. During the next 10 years I did mostly portrait photography, weddings and product photography. I also worked for a company that originated the high quality brochures for high priced real estate. I did all the interior photography, as office manager, I scheduled all exterior photography (we photographed more than 100 houses a week), ran the darkroom, made the screened halftones by hand and even learned to run the printing press.

I got the flying bug early in the photography era. I truly loved to fly and was curious about aviation in general. I started to build scale models as a way to learn more about planes and their history and development. This became my hobby and passion. As I got more into it I started scratchbuilding aircraft that weren't available as kits.

One day I spotted a classified ad for a modelmaker in a company making commercial aviation display models. I quit the real estate photography job one day and became a model maker the next. Thus began a career of over 12 years. I've built all types of architectural models, aircraft models ranging from full scale mockups to tie-tacks. I've done movie models, industrial mockups and prototypes, toy development, museum displays and furniture. My real forte became pattern and mold making.

I have always been interested in new technologies. Computers have always been lurking in the background. The Macintosh interested me from the beginning. In '86 I bought a store demo 512ke that had a SCSI cable hanging out the back (like a tail). I joined a user group and read all I could find. In '89 a windfall after a particularly lucrative model job allowed me to get a IIci (16 megs, 105 meg hard drive, and monitor - $7,300 -OUCH!).

I started to wonder how I might combine computers and modelmaking. A new technology came to my attention called Stereo Lithography. The computer would read the 3-view drawings and split the object into layers and draw the layers with a laser beam into a liquid plastic. The finished part would be complete and accurate inside and out. What would take a person 3-4 days to finish could be completed in 3-4 hours by this process. And there were other similar processes coming out. I saw the handwriting on the wall. As I was just about to get into this field, I got a phone call.

A friend who was into computers about as much as I, and a printer by trade got a call about 2 Peruvian gentlemen who wanted to design video cassette sleeves on the computer. I was called because I was more familiar with photographic imaging on the computer. They gave me a "Cantinflas" movie to work on. They liked what I did and gave me 9 more! That was in April '91. I haven't looked back since. Funny - I have been working with them consistently and I still don't speak Spanish (not counting all those years of Spanish in school)!

Through another phone call, I have begun a new business recording live classical events. I am working on the cutting edge of the equipment again, to produce top quality recordings of solo and chamber recitals to full symphony orchestras. And with my design background I am designing materials and marketing for a So. Calif. orchestra.

The photography bug bit me again several years ago. I actively cover many southern California events throughout the year. During the summer airshow season I cover just about all the shows from the mexican border to Fresno. My interest in history has led me to attending and photographing many living history events. As a lover of the beauty of nature, I spend many weekends photographing the local mountains, deserts and the ocean.