Word on the street, well in the photography and marketing streets, is everyone needs to have a blog. So now I have a blog. Oh joy, something else to do now! But then it might just be fun for me to ramble on about this that or the other thing.
I do look forward to sharing some of my work with you all. Most of my photos, especially the portraiture, isn’t seen by anyone outside the family of the person whose being immortalized. Immortalized, now there’s a thought. I’ve got some old wedding photos, 80 years old, perhaps older. I’d imagine the folks in them are long gone. But not the photos.

Speaking of immortalized, how about this photo? My wife’s mother had me restore it. It’s her grandmother. The photo was taken around 1915 or so. She had two children and died in the influenza outbreak of 1918. The original print is an oval deal about 11×14 – a rare thing in it’s day to be that big. You never know exactly how you’ll be remembered 100 years from now, but this lady will be. As opposed to my kids’ grandmother who was a bit picture shy (the wrinkles I suppose) but the last images we have of her in a nursing home bed. Not the grand portrait that would do her spirit justice!

Yes, I’m into photography for the art, the fun and the history of it as well. It’s more than a job, it’s an obsession. Ask Jill, my wife, she’ll tell you i’m the Forrest Gump of photography ( she’s referring to the part of the movie where he talks about shrimp…shrimp gumbo, shrimp cocktail, shrimp scampi…). Yeah, I’m enthusiastic about what I do!