I don't even remember when I first started taking photos but I'm pretty sure it was at a very early age.
I do remember that my first cameras were a pair of old hand-me-down Kodak Brownies that originally belonged to my mother and father.
My father was always very much into photography himself and he was probably the primary reason for my wanting to pursue it as a passion myself.
Over the years it has become less and less just a hobby and more and more a true passion.
When I started traveling the world as part of my job it took on a whole new focus because I just had to document all of the wonderful places I was visiting for my friends
and family to enjoy.
When I started hiking and backacking in the Grand Canyon the passion turned into an obsession and I would shoot roll after roll of film in the Canyon.
It was during this period that I discovered my true calling as a nature and landscape photographer and my
Grand Canyon Explorer web site is a direct result
of my combinbed addictions to both the Grand Canyon and photography.
When the reasonably inexpensive (below $1000) digital cameras first started to appear in the consumer market in the mid 1990s I was one of the first to embrace this technology.
Up to that point I had shot with 35mm films but getting the images scanned and transferred to Kodak Photo CDs was not cost effective.
I experimented briefly with a 35mm film scanner of my own but was never quite satisfied with the results from that and a digital camera to me was the perfect solution.
That first digital camera was claimed as an offering by the Canyon but the two others that followed it have held up very well to my hiking and backpacking adventures.
Now that digital SLRs have become affordable I have begun to move off in that direction and I must say it feels good to hold a real camera again.
Photo Credits
- A.G.A. Correa & Son
Cover of nautical jewelry catalog
Catalogue Number 143
1 River Wind Lane
Edgecomb, Maine
- Arizona Weather Calendar
(by Channel 12 News - Phoenix, Arizona)
2007 Edition
Conrad Group / Pechacek Corportaion
Park City, Utah
- Ian Pepper et al.'s "Environmental and Pollution Science" Textbook
2006 Edition
Academic Press (Elsevier)
Saint Louis, Missouri
- Houghton Mifflin Grade 4 "Focus On Science" Textbook
2007 Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston, Massachusetts
- Harcourt Science Grades 4 and 5
2007 Edition
Harcourt School Publishers
Orlando, Florida
- Massachusetts Coast Guide to Boston & the North Shore
2004 Edition
Massachusetts Offices of Coastal Zone Management
- 'Ohana Magazine
November/December 2003 Issue
Published by Ozeki Enterprizes, Inc., Las Vegas, Nevada
- Explore America - Book 1 : The Land and People Before Columbus
Third Edition, 2003
Ballard & Tighe, Publishers
- Earth History CD-ROM and Resources Book
Published 2001
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley
Delta Education
- Earth History Mini-Course Photo Album
Trial Edition, Fall 1998
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley
Delta Education
- Grand Canyon CD-ROM
1998
Virtual Adventures
- Grand Canyon Explorer CD-ROM
June 1997
InfoMagic, Flagstaff, Arizona