Biography -  I spend my career putting people to sleep, no not as a public speaker but rather as an anesthesiologist.
      I received my first camera when about six years old. It was an Ansco Flash Clipper. I saved and saved to buy a little yellow filter for it which did amazing things for clouds in the then prevalent black and white photography. I was fortunate to get an early Leica 35mm while in the service in Germany and then progressed to a Pentax Spotmatic. From there I entered the mysteries of darkroom experience and now finally digital photography.
      I now use a Canon 10D, have a Nikon film scanner and an Epson 1800 printer. I have a Dell set up and make extensive use of Photoshop, presently using CS2.
      Over the years I have done a lot of Table Top photography in addition to travel and nature. Table Top is a must for those of us living in such places as northern Ohio. What else do you do in the winter? We often don't get enough snow for good winter photography and pictures of bleak, empty trees and dead grass just doesn't do it. So time in my basement is well spent, photographing such things as glassware, feathers, paper clips etc. I have delved into special techniques using fluorescent painted objects, double polarization, water drop photography and the like. I'm sure you'll see some of those projects as time goes by.
      I belong to a wonderful group of interesting photographers, the Akron Camera Club. We have probably about 50 members and monthly competition, so that really keeps me on my toes. I have been a member of PSA for 26 years and previously took part in a Slide Study Group from which I profited immensely which is one reason I am so anxious to get started in EID #10.