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I picked up my first camera when I was 17 years old.  As a volunteer firefighter at that time I started taking pictures of fire scenes. As with many photographers their photographic interests change. 

Over the years my interests changed to landscapes and eventually portraits; starting with wild animals at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo.  Dr. Lee Simmons, Director of the Zoo at that time, allowed me to enter the Zoo in the wee hours of the morning to photograph the animals when they were more at ease.   I spent many hours there honing my photographic skills using an old fashioned manual film camera with manual flash, i.e. no automation.   It was at the Zoo that I mastered the feat of taking portraits of animals,  through 1-1/2" thick plexiglass with absolutely no glare from the flash.  Even Doc Simmons was mystified as to how I was able to achieve such a feat.   Some of these pictures are featured on my website.

Fifty five years later I am still striving to master the art of photography, specifically portraits of animals and people. 

My choice of animal portraits today is not in a zoo......it is in the ocean.  It involves face to face encounters with sharks, not behind plexiglass as was the case in the zoo.  (Nor am I in a cage. TAKE THIS OUT)  These are face to face encounters, not in a cage, with Reef, Lemon, Nurse, Bull, Hammerhead and Tiger Sharks!   Sharks so close I can touch them; close enough to capture the very essence of these wild creatures.

When not under the surface of the ocean I am still striving to capture the essence of my subject; in this case portraits of people.