I retired from the engineering dept at John Deere Waterloo in Oct 1984 after 34 years of service. My photographic career started as a boy, during family outings my job was to “carry the Kodak.” I still have that #2 Box Brownie.

I picked up some formal photographic training in the Navy and after my discharge it became my principle hobby. My PSA career started in 1962 and I dropped out in 1969 due to job demands. Rejoined in 1973 and my wife Viola and are both life members and APSA's.

Over the years I have held the following PSA positions, AR, DR (Iowa), Chairman of the Nominating Committee, Chapters Chairman, Chapters VP, I resigned from the Excom in 1992 due to health problems. Taking my doctor's advice, we loaded up the Airstream trailer and started traveling, We are still at it, We winter in south Texas where we have a home in an RV resort in Pharr, TX. We spend the summers traveling wherever our interests take us.

I have been a Nikon user since 1961. I went digital in 1989, buying a Nikon film scanner and scanning slides for a number of years then bought an Olympus DL600 digital, I am currently using a Nikon D200 with an assortment of lenses with a D100 as a spare body, My wife Vi uses a D70, and favors VR lenses.

My primary interest is landscape, nature and travel photography, I have recently started doing a lot of digital photo essays as a means of presenting some of our work.

I shoot only RAW images and work primarily with Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Paintshop Pro, I have yet to find any one program that does everything I want to do. I try to do all of the “creative” work in the camera and only use the computer to make whatever adjustments are necessary to present the image the way I envisioned it at the time of exposure, doing mostly what I would have done in a darkroom. I do most of my shooting either early in the morning or at dusk which gives me the light quality I prefer.