I have always liked photography, and in high school I had a lot of fun shooting B&W. My dad even built a tiny darkroom in the basement and I was able to pull prints with ease.

Well, time went on and I kind of lost the enthusiasm for darkroom work and settled in on using a point and shoot camera and having the lab do all of the film work. Of course when digital came around, I found myself buying a simple point and shoot digital for the family snapshots.

I've always liked old technology. I tinker with old tube radios, I have been restoring player pianos semi-professionally and have many old antiques. late in 2014 I picked up an old Kodak Brownie Hawkeye and shot a roll of 620. Well, I was hooked again. I set up a darkroom area in the basement and have begun a journey now back into film photography.

I love to take a very old camera and clean it up and make it perform again. It is so much fun revealing the negatives and seeing the quirks of each camera. Some were dogs, some were fine machines. Now that digital has replaced analog cameras in such a big way, cameras that I could only dream of having as a kid (Nikon F2, Canon AE1, etc,)

My passion now is not to shoot the most amazing photos, but to try out various vintage cameras and experience the quality and the hands on nature of photography. I would love to progress into the alternative processes some day, such as wet plate and tin type or cyanotypes. That's where I see this going.

So call me an eccentric... that's what my kids call me.