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Most of my early childhood was spent exploring the woods of the NJ highlands. My summer vacations were spent fishing, swimming, and collecting small animals for my many aquariums. These activities endured throughout the years with visits to North Carolina, Florida and Texas.

While attending junior high school in Austin Texas I worked one of my most memorable jobs. My duties consisted of landscaping and caring for an exotic duck collection. Most of my time was spent around some of the most beautiful aquatic birds I have ever seen. I always looked forward to my days spent here. I remember seeing UT students photographing these birds at point blank range in the beautiful settings that I helped create. On my last day at this job my boss gave me a Canon AL-1 SLR camera as a gift.

Photography always interested me so I attended a few classes in high school to learn more. The results never satisfied me so I started to pursue the printing trades where I could expand my darkroom skills. After several printing jobs I went back to school to learn about computers to keep up with the changing technology. I supported myself during my first year at school as a fish specialist at PETCO.

I never missed a year when I did not go fishing and things started to change when I begun to visit the local hawk watch. The hawks were a sight to see and I enjoyed counting them and learning how to identify them in flight. Enter the “point-and-shoot” digital camera. My fist point-and-shoot camera was the Sony Mavica that used a floppy-disk to store the images. I soon moved up with the 5MP Sony DSC-V1 but found this frustrating for photographing hawks. The Nikon D70 was my fist DSLR where my wildlife and computer interests started to really complement each other.

Today I am expanding into more birds and chasing them around with my Nikon D300. You are welcome to view my photos and post your feedback. Feel free to twitter.com/PixelHawk, thank you for your interest and enjoy.

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