For much of my life, photography was a sometimes thing. I had a camera as a child but virtually all of the photographs I made have been discarded or lost. That’s too bad because I’d like to see what I thought was worth pointing a camera at during those years.

I got my first SLR camera as a Christmas present in 1976 from my parents, a Vivitar camera body with a 55 mm lens. On my first job out of college, I was a reporter for a daily newspaper in downstate Illinois and taking pictures was part of the job.

When I look at my early photos today, I see a creative mind at work. I did a lot of experimenting with compositions and subject matters.

By the early 1980s, my interest in photography had waned. It wasn't until I moved to Cleveland in 1993 that I got back into photography.

I stopped using print film in the early 2000s and went digital in July 2011. I have a primary interest in railroad operations, but like to photograph anything large that moves, including aircraft and watercraft.

I often take a photojournalism approach to my work, telling stories in a series of images of the same event. I think of my Flickr pages as an ongoing journal that shows where I've been and what I found worth capturing on film or in megapixels. Just about everyday I add another page or two to that journal.