I have changed all my photos to "all rights reserved" as they are being used by businesses and for-profit entities all over the internet, and commercial uses outside of what the license entails. Very few of those people and/or entities requested permission (kudos to those very cool ones who did.)

 

If you want to use one of my photos, particuarlly if you are a non-profit, just send me an email for permission and telling me the use, a little about it, etc., so I can decide. Most likely I will welcome such requests. I can send you the full photo.

 

Long divorced, happy father of a happy now teenager, and daughter and photography keep me sane and keep my mind on the future and looking positively at the past.

 

My avatar resides in a fish tank at the Carnegie Science Center on the North Shore of Pittsburgh... Pay her a visit...

 

I presently shoot mostly with my D7200. I've in the past had a D7000, D90, D40x(D60) and D40, w/Nikon 16-80mm AF-S, 18-200mm VR, Nikon 18-55 VR, Sigma 70-300mm and Nikon10.5mm fisheye, also lots older shots on here are Canon S3 IS, Canon S5 IS, Canon A620, Minolta S-1...

   

UPDATE: April 9, 2008, 9:02am. Quinn Isabella McGervey is born! 7#8oz, 19.5" long. Very easy delivery, Crisi's easiest. She went into labor for about an hour, was fully dialated, the doctor told me to hold her leg and pull when he said push, he said push once, said "there's the head," and I peeked, seeing my baby's purple head, and then he said "push," again, and there she was. He said it's the quickest delivery he can remember. She's adorable. Thank you everyone for your prayers and well-wishes!

 

UPDATE: As of Janurary 7, Quinn is 2.6 pounds! Still no decision on middle names... ideas? It's gotta flow with Quinn ______ McGervey??? yeah, I know...Crisi likes Shae.. I don't think it flows???

 

November updade: The baby is a girl... UPDATE: We've decided her name has to be Irish, and is going to be Quinn... still searching for a middle name. Any suggestions...

 

UPDATE: The baby is due April 5!!!

 

I'm an alumni of W144... And very few of you will know what that means, but if you do, welcome fellow SEA alums...

  

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I am tall, Irish/Polish, I come from a family of 6, 2 sisters, one brother. My father died in December 2005, and we all love and miss him. He was a good father, a good husband, and a good provider.

 

I'm originally from Pittsburgh... A majority of my family still calls Pittsburgh home. Born in the city and grew up until 13 in Castle Shannon, a predominately Irish Catholic "burb" 6 miles south of the city. My mom and her family grew up on Polish Hill and then the upper North Side. My dad's family radiated outwards from Ingram, another formerly predominant Irish Catholic neighborhood outside Pittsburgh. My uncle still lives in Ingram in the house on Mainsgate Street my grandfather built.

 

My grandfather was an architect in Pittsburgh. He taught at Allegheny College, and he was mostly known for his churches. As my father tells it, he refused to build one without a bell tower. One of the last churches to bear his name apparently wasn't going to have one, and he protested and was going to take his name off, so the church has a belltower.

 

I've lived in Pittsburgh, Morgantown, Fairmont, Charleston, Williamson, Spencer, Cape Cod, Virginia Beach... and I love travel and live music.