Background
After
graduating from college with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, I
moved to the Seattle, Washington area. It was then that a seed sprouted, planted years
earlier from a cross country family vacation from Alabama to Oregon. Along with visiting
family in Oregon and friends (several of my father's military buddies), we drove through
some of the great natural landscapes - the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone of Wyoming,
eastern Oregon and Crater Lake, the Pacific coast, the Redwoods of California, the Rocky
Mountains of Colorado, Nevada, the Great Salt Lake in Utah. I had come back to a place
that I had dreamed of for many years.
Shortly after moving to Washington, I took up the sport of mountain climbing. Mt.
Rainier, dominant in the landscape in Seattle, called to me. I soon climbed it with friends,
one of whom became my wife. At first, I thought I would climb Mt. Rainier and that
would be the end of it. In the following years, climbing became more of a passion, to the
point where I took a couple of climbing courses offered by the Seattle Mountaineers. The
camera became my constant companion in the mountains. Eventually my part time interest
in photography became a full time passion.
Many years passed before this became a full time pursuit. I have been shooting since
1984, with an eye towards making it a full time occupation. In September of 2005, that
time arrived.
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