The interest in capturing the world around me on film began in a make-shift darkroom....watching an image emerge from a blank piece of paper under a red light. Luckily, there was a color photographic lab in the small Ozarks town in which I grew up so I was able to excercise my passion, increase my knowledge and get paid for it. Since then I've had the opportunity to photograph subjects and events from across the United States for various types of publications and my writing has been published in modest venues. The love of nature traveled with me when I moved to Okaloosa Island, FL about...more