I graduated from Augsburg College with a degree in mathematics, and did a year of Graduate Study in Geophysics at St Louis University. I worked about thirty years at Honeywell as an Engineering Supervisor, and three years at Electro-Craft as Quality Director. I retired in 1984.

I started my photography hobby in about 1970 and joined my first camera club in 1972. Now I am a member of three clubs, a slide club, a print club and a digital imaging club. For the first five years I worked with color slides, and then I made the mistake of taking a photography class at a high school located by work. 

There, I was required to expose monochrome negative film, process the film, and make some prints. That experience cost me the price of an enlarger and a good deal of the darkroom equipment. Working with prints, monochrome or color, taught me that inadequate depth of field, camera shake, and similar errors are obvious on prints where they might not be obvious on slides. To make good prints, I needed to improve my photographic techniques. That experience helped my slide work.

I am active in the local camera clubs, the Twin City Council of Camera Clubs, and PSA. I have served in all local club and council positions, as well as many Mpls/St Paul Exhibition positions. My activities in PSA started in the PPD, where I served as 2nd Vice Chairman, 1st Vice Chairman, and Chairman. I served as Divisions Vice President for a term and then three years as Chairman of the Nominating Committee.

 I like competition and I have a 1st Galaxy in CSD. My interest lies in creative work. I feel PSA has the obligation to challenge all members to be photographic artists, and not photographic recorders. So most of my competition slides are created in the darkroom or on a computer. 
 
I received my FPSA and AFIAP honors a number of years ago, and still keep myself active in local, regional, and PSA activities.

I purchased my first computer in 1981-an Apple II+ and the Sedio household now struggles to get along with only three computers, two Macs and a PC. One Mac is a Centris 610 and the other is Power Center 166 Mac Clone. My PC is a Vectron Home Office Pro with a Pentium 166. 

Lou, my wife has the two Macs, and an old Microtek slide scanner, and a reasonably new Epson Page Scanner. I scan all my images on the slide scanner and then convert the Mac Files to PC files, as I work on the PC. Our printers are quite old, and we are looking forward to purchasing a new one this year.

During 1997 I tried to set up an Internet Digital Imaging Study Group with Bob Gorrill, but this was unsuccessful. I had no knowledge of HTML, and had no interest in learning HTML (Somebody else programs the computers, I just use them). Last October, I decided that if PSA was to set up an Internet DI Study Group, I would have to learn HTML, so I learned just enough to set up the system (I still do not like HTML).