Hi, my name is Chuck and welcome to my world. I hope you enjoy looking around my Flickr Stream.

Sue and I are retired, children of the 50s and 60s, who love old cars, old music, fifties diners, going to car shows and events. Back in our hey day we raced Corvettes, and restored old cars. Today we occupy our time with our photography, transferring our vinyl and our tape collections to CD, and restoring all of our photos, and turning them into multimedia slideshows.

I learned photography from my Dad, who was a photographer before the war (World War 2), during it in the Pacific campaign and after. When I was 5 we moved to Long Island and he built a darkroom in the basement. Down there I learned to develop film, enlarge, burn and dodge, various techniques for restoring negatives and prints and much more. Over the years I've managed camera departments, and have been lucky that all through my life I've had photography and images as a passion.

On Flickr and the blog you'll find examples of some of my restorations of our images from years past and a very varied group of today's photos. My main interests in photography today are macro, close-ups, black & white, night images and realistic HDR. I'm currently experimenting with night HDR.

From a basement darkroom in the 1950s to today's digital age, what a trip!