Dublin, Texas, Home of the oldest Dr Pepper plant in the world.
I just retired from a University IT post. I'm trying to start up as a freelance shooter and writer. I spent 20 year before TSU with Control Data Systems as a systems analysis and a federal programs/project manager. A job which took me to some interesting places in the world.
Now my wife (a painter) of 36 years and I live in a house built in 1884 with three cats, 3000+ books, art and antiques including the plumbing system.
I trained as an Anthropologist and completed everything but my disseration. I got to doing some strange mathmatics on the university CDC 6000 and a big computer company hired me in 1981 for more at that time than anthorpology professors made so I started my life as a bit shuffler.
I started photography in high school with an Argus C3. I still have my first Leica a IIIG. As an undergraduate, I had a couple of shows of my work but ended my serious photography with grad school for over 30 years. I started back 3 years ago and had a show this past June.
I was raised in a household where my mother, a painter, sculptor and art teacher. She made me passionate about all the arts but most especially the visual ones. This leads me to see photography in the context of the visual arts and not a craft and look at it as participating in the complete tradition of the visual art forms.
In addition to my M8, I shoot a Canon 5D and R-D1.
Yes, I do look like my avatar.