Hi Folks,

 

I'm retired (a little early) from ConocoPhillips as a career IT guy. My wife and I have relocated to Oklahoma City to be in the vicinity of our grandkids. Oh, it also just happens to be where their parents (our sons and their wives) live as well. ;-)

 

I have a little international experience by having lived in the UK for awhile, doing technology audits for Phillips Petroleum in Scotland, Norway, Belgium and England. I've spent time in China doing audits as well. Besides photography, my interests are fitness and music.

 

I've been involved with photography most of my adult life, starting with a little Kodak X-35 Instamatic in college. I bought my first 35mm camera in about 1983, a Fuji. After that I migrated to Pentax (SF1n) which I used up until 2008. I was at a camera workshop in 2007 with about 50 amateur photographers and asked for a straw poll as to who was shooting film and who had gone to digital. About 47 of 50 were digital. That was a real wake-up call for me. I hadn't realized the technology had progressed as far as it had. So now I shoot a Nikon D90; make that a D7200, make that a D750.

 

In retirement, one thing I do is to volunteer with the Southern Baptist Convention Disaster Relief team. I went on three trips in 2011 and served as the unofficial photographer on each. To help document the activities for the team members, I prepared the following slideshows that I subsequently posted to YouTube. Some pictures are of the work and interspersed with those are some more "artsy" photographs.

 

Greenville, NC - Hurricane Matthew - Feeding Unit - October 2016

youtu.be/JJG0xuG6uX4

 

Fort McMurray, Alberta Wildfires - May/June 2016

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Eko5TsH7ZM

 

Monroe, LA flooding - March 2016

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xGeuQt0Z_E

 

Charleston, SC flooding - October 2015

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGjYZ1kGrY4

 

Boulder, CO flooding - September 2013:

youtu.be/HfEZd5Gq_hc

 

Black Forest, CO wildfires - June 2013:

youtu.be/F4Wh17Mz_Cw

 

Moore, OK following the E5 tornado that struck there May 20, 2013:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHYHjF9UZFM

 

Hurricane Sandy, from Brooklyn, NY:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ7-aKKB_g0

 

Hurricane Sandy, from Middletown, New Jersey:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDMMHeOONWY

 

Working the Disaster Relief kitchen in New Orleans, LA:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jswfi2QAhaY

 

Wildfires in Luther, OK:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jswfi2QAhaY

 

Wildfires in Fort Collins, CO (High Park fire):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M9PwWlr1dM

 

Wildfires in Ruidoso, NM:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUu2PCcZQdc

 

Wildfire destruction in Bastrop, Texas:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY16Tkdb_tc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDv3xiiyHN4

 

Flood damage in Minot, North Dakota:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDSZJXdUlJA

 

BTW, the "66" in my identifier is for Route 66/ Phillips 66.

 

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