Don was born in Berlin, Germany, lived in Havana, Cuba for almost 11 years where he went through his primary grades through the 8th Grade, and then migrated to Miami, Florida, at age 14. He went to high school in Miami and graduated from Miami-Dade Junior College followed by the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL, with a B.A. degree in Business Administration (Marketing) on March 31, 1969. On April 1 he joined the DuPont Company which moved him to such places as Miami, Barcelona, Spain, Houston, TX, Cleveland (Chagrin Falls), OH and finally to Wilmington, DE in 1979. In 1969 Don married his wife, Lani, who spent her career as a Speech Language Pathologist (20 years at the Pilot School in Wilmington). After 26 years with DuPont, Don joined a couple of small companies and spent 17 years with PDM, Inc. in Wilmington marketing citrus and pine derivative chemicals. Don's career took Don & Lani all over the world and he started skating in 1985 until 2016 when he hung up his skates, but kept enjoying his favorite hobby, photography, particularly of figure skaters. As you look through many of the albums, you'll realize why Don keeps enjoying photographing figure skaters. The figure skating competitors are a special breed of person who devote most of their free time training and developing their skills and their bodies for strength, endurance, grace and a commitment only seen and known by those who follow the sport (or any Olympic sport for that matter). The skaters' parents are also very committed, financially, because training is expensive since it involves ice time, coaching, choreography, costumes, skates and travel expenses. Furthermore, because most figure skaters are young, they quickly outgrow their skates (and blades) which are expensive. The degree of difficulty that you see on ice can only be appreciated if you get on the ice yourself and experience the balance, coordination and strength the sport requires. My time in the gym gives new meaning to what is described as core strength. Don now uses a Nikon Z7II mirrorless camera which gives him plenty of sensitivity with low grain in indoor, low lighting conditions. Consequently, spins, jumps and other exciting action moves by skaters yield excellent imaging results on monitors and prints using his 28-400mm Nikkor zoom lens.