I suppose it goes without saying that I am an intensely visual person.

I remember my first feeble attempts at photography were when I was about ten. I scabbed a Kodak 126 InstaMatic from one of my sisters who had recently gotten a new high tech 110mm for Christmas. (Remember flash bulbs?) I took it with me to my grandma's house in Athens, Texas. I went nuts! I took pictures of silly stuff at all these freaky angles. When my film came back I was sorely disappointed in what I'd shot. I honestly felt I had wasted my money on the processing. "Hey! In 1970 three dollars was more than I saw in a month!"

My entire experiance with photography has been nothing more than attempt to overcome that first intial disappointment.

I really wanted everyone to see the world as I saw it!

Folks would flip through my pictures and were completely unaffected by what I'd taken. I kept trying to explain it to them... "This was BIG!!!" "Awesome." "Amazing!" They just weren't interested in looking at my pictures.

Then when I was fifteen I managed to talk my mom into letting me buy my very first 35mm. A Minolta SRT-101... that was an awesome camera... many have come and gone since then but there are few I loved as much as that camera. As a result I have had a camera in front of my face for most of my life... trying... as hard as I could to overcome that first disappointment in failing to convey my message accurately.

Just a few weeks ago... the school I work for bought me a digital scanner... a really nice one, complete with a document handler. While unpacking it I stumbled across something called the "Transparent Media Attachment." A device which allows me to scan directly from slides and more importantly... negatives.

Awesome...

Thirty five years of carefully archived negatives have just come out of "The Vault"...

Witness here my pitiful attempts to accurately depict the world... "as I see it!

Join me as I explore...