I picked up a camera when I was four, myparents ,bless them, gave me a camera which I promptly took apart to see how it worked. They gave me another with my promise to not do that again. Quickly they put me on a film allowence, I had one roll a week, it taught me a lot. I had my own photo business at age 12, my parents made me write out a business plan and keep books. I worked my way through college as a photographer. I worked for four older photographers over a seven year period, advertising and archtectural and PR. Then Horses, then weddings and carriage trade portraits, then portraits, more of a mass market. I went into business for myself, and did mostly architectural and product illustration, but a little bit of everything, started an advertising agency and liked that. One of the recessions killed the ad agency and I went into sales, sales management and training and customer relations. I have always done Fine Art photography and painting. Now I am a landscape designer and community outreach director for a small cemetery. So I market, do the PR, copy write, photograph a great deal of the grounds, of which I design. It is like landscape photography except I design the landscape. I started a gallery at the cemetery and we exhibit every month. I will be showing an Oliver Galgiani exhibit in May, if any of you are in N. California and want to see a really shamefully under rated master artist, you are invited. But the shows here are quite good. Last year I showed one of the founders of the Blind Photographers Guild. Magical stuff. Joe