UPDATE: as i've struggled through a string of health-related difficulties, i've come to understand the importance of photography in keeping me somewhat sane & am working to get back to it as well as all my friends on Flickr.

i bought my first camera, a Canon FTbN with a 50mm f1.8 lens, in 1974 and have been shooting off and on ever since. mostly, i shoot what appeals to me, without too much regard for whether it will appeal to anyone else, but i enjoy comments (pro & con) and hope you will freely offer compliments, criticisms, questions, and observations.

i have also owned and shot with a Leica M3, Olympus OMs (1 & 2), an ancient Rolleiflex TLR, a Mamiya C33 TLR, numerous point & shoots (Stylus, HiMatic, Action Touch, etc), a Crown Graphic, even a borrowed Holga, but am inexorably moving towards digital, being haunted by a lengthy period of time in which i stopped shooting because of an inability to keep up with the demands of film.

right now, i mostly use a sony cybershot but it has a tack-sharp carl zeiss lens that meets my current needs.

update: a pristine yashica D has recently been added, courtesy of a good friend, as well as a canon G16, courtesy of my brother, which has taken over from the sony because it's such a bitch.

i maintain a separate body of work under the name Summ...II that contains nudes from 1974 to 1994.