As a child I loved to read. I read many books and created pictures of what I read in my mind. I have been adding to those pictures through photography for 50 years.
I started professionally in 1952, at the age of 17, with my first published news photographs of then Senator Richard Nixon's whistlestop campaign in Ohio for the Vice Presidency on the GOP ticket with General Dwight Eisenhower.
In 1957, as a graduate from Ohio University, with a major in photojournalism, I moved to New York City to work as an assistant for Ms. Nina Leen at LIFE Magazine.
After spending two years in the US Army as a combat photographer, I had the opportunity to go to sea in1960, as a photographer for a year on a staysail schooner research vessel in the South Pacific. After completing this dream trip I got a real job as a news photographer in Cincinnati, Ohio on the Cincinnati Post Times Star newspaper. This gave me a good foundation in daily news coverage. After five years I moved to Washington, D.C., where I had the good fortune to be hired at the Washington Evening Star newspaper. This experience was from May 1965 to August 1970, covering politics, The White House, special events, demonstrations, and the D.C. riots in 1968, in addition to the daily drill.
Leaving the newspaper wasn't an easy decision, but once made, proved interesting. I went into the federal government at the U.S. Department of Interior in August of 1970 and was soon detailed to The White House. Interestingly Richard Nixon was President. The person, whom in a sense, was the catalyst that had started my career. It was during this period that I traveled extensively world wide, including the first trip of President Nixon to China in 1972.
I departed The White House in 1973 to take a position at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as Director of Photography. At USDA I was involved in many major photographic endeavors until I retired in 1994.
At present I am cataloging 60 years of photographs in my "Images Remembered" collection and creating books.
