Group Member's Comments

I'll be 69 years old on October 28th. I have been an investment advisor/financial planner for 46 years with the same regional firm. I started as a clerk and wound up owning a majority interest in the firm. Subsequently I sold the firm to seven employees four years ago. I'm still working full-time with a more relaxed schedule and now I do what I like best: manage accounts, client service and research. This gives me additional time to spend on photography.

I have been involved with photography since my military days 47-48 years ago. I was a brigade photographer and assistant editor of a monthly newspaper. Back in those days we didn't have digital. I carried around a big speed-graphic camera with four by five film negatives and my pockets full of large flashbulbs. Photography has been a part of my life since then but not on a serious basis. I currently have two Nikon cameras: D200 and D2X (I'm still learning every day how to use this one.). I traveled with a good group of photographers to the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Preserve in New Mexico last fall to photograph the migrating birds. Another trip is planned for Holland in April 2008.

Other hobbies include golf and barbershop singing. I'm not so good at the first one, but I have sung in competing barbershop quartets and directed two choruses in contest and on shows. My family includes my wife, Betty, and two grown children