I was ten or eleven years old when my interest, or more like fascination with photography began. It was back in the day when there were these little Kodak Drive Thru Shacks smack down in the middle of your suburban strip mall parking lots. They seemed so small in size from the outside, but once inside...yup they were actually that small and very crowded.

I remember as you entered the single glass door shack, of course covered with posters advertising for this kodak paper or that kodak film but always covered with something so you couldn't quite see clearly inside, you were greeted by a counter top that seemed ten feet tall and a mile long decorated by racks upon racks of yellow and blue or maybe it was yellow and black foil wrapped film packs.

Perhaps it was not from one of those Kodak Shacks, but at ten years old, as a holiday gift, someone from somewhere had gotten and given to me my very first camera. It was a "Kodak You Build It 110 Film Camera."
Now despite the fact that I was already taken aback by the idea that I had to build my own gift (and definitely didn't have the slightest idea what 110 meant until some fifteen years later), I built it. And with that camera, I took my very, very, very (did I mention very?) first picture.

There was a man in a bright orange hunting parka. His hood was zipped up tight around his face as he stood there with shovel in hand looking out upon what then seemed like 20 feet of snow, but in reality was probably only 2 or 3 feet deep.
I can still vividly remember the great contrast of his orange parka and the red handle of the shovel against the bright white of the blizzard like snow.
That was one of my first photographs. That man was my father and my very first subject from behind the lens.

I learned a great deal more about photography later on in life when I met my friend, teacher and eventually business pardner Lori Berkowitz. She introduced me to and taught me just about everything I know about Canon A-1 35mm and Hasselblad Medium Format SLR cameras. And with that my fascination was sealed and put into works that are comprised of pictures taken with various cameras ranging from film, to digital, point and shoot cameras to SLR's.

It's like dressing up and wearing a mask for Halloween. You can walk around, freely watching and observing anything and everything. That is what I do from behind my lens - I hope you enjoy what I see.

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