I was born right here in Lebanon, Marion County, KY so 50 something years ago. I've lived in Campbellsville, KY, Menlo, GA, Atlanta, GA, Bedford, KY, Taylorsville, KY, Irvine, KY and Lexington, KY before moving back to Marion Co. When I lived in Atlanta the airport was WAY out of town & there were no passenger jet airplanes.

Sometime after graduating from high school in Taylorsville, KY in '65 & getting married in June of '68 I went on a government all expense paid trip to Southeast Asia. I have a page that tells about some of my experiences there. In between I started to work for IBM in Lexington. I worked for IBM for 26 years and then took a LOA for 4 years & retired from IBM in the fall of '96.

I married Nancy Arnold from Irvine, KY. in June of '68 & we have 3 wonderful children who live in Lexington.

I opened a photography studio in February of 1993 on Main St., in Lebanon. Nancy & I bought almost 4 acres of land on Lovers Lane & built a new home. I have a lake with 2 bridges, a deck in the lake. The house is surrounded on 2 sides by trees and our closest neighbors are about ¾ mile away. The studio is now located at our home.

I started working for IBM in '66 packing typewriters for shipment. In early '78 I started working 2d shift in computer operations. When I left IBM I was a senior systems programmer - performance analyst. Which means that I was a systems programmer who knew something about large system performance. While working in that capacity I also worked with the Candle Corp., Los Angles, Ca & their system monitoring program named Omegamon®. I wrote the specs for a program to monitor Omegamon® that finally came into Candle's product line as Status Monitor®. With one terminal I could monitor 40+ computer systems or applications at one time.

My first 'real' camera was a Canon AE1 with a 50MM lens. Later I had 3 Canon A1's with about 10-12 lenses. As I began to do professional work I purchased 2 Bronica ETRS 645 Medium Format cameras & a variety of lenses. Now I'm using a Canon A2 with a variety of lenses including a 17-35 F2.8 "L" lens, 28-70 F2.8 "L" lens, a 70-200 F2.8 "L" lens and a 300MM "L" F4 lens. I've just recently started using a Canon D30.....and I love it. Most of the images on this site were taken with the D30.

The last IBM computer I had was an AT 339 with a 286 CPU. I paid $3300.00 for it and that was at a 50% employee price. It came with a CGA monitor, a ProPrinter, 512K RAM & a 30M HD. Haven't things changed in the last 10-12 years in the computer world? That 339 had 512K of RAM. Today my computer has 512M of RAM. I have more computing power sitting under my desk than we had in the 158's, 168, 3033's & the 3090s that I learned to operate in the late 70's. While at IBM we believed in living on the 'bleeding' edge of technology. We were the first site outside of NY to be able to run multiple operating systems on the same system. We ran the VM OS and MVS with JES2 & JES3 running under the MVS.

I loved that life but paid a high price for it. My children grew up without me being there for them. I started having health problems and then IBM didn't need me anymore.

Nancy and I moving back to Lebanon was one of the best moves we've ever made. We looked in Lexington several times for a new (to us) home. When we moved back home we found a piece of property that no one else wanted. As soon as we saw it, we could see the potential the property had. Some of our friends thought we were crazy for buying that worthless piece of wetlands and swamp. Today the swamp is the lake that is full of fish. It's almost like having a 750,000 gallon aquarium. Watching the fish is quiet relaxing and it's a lot of fun to catch a few of them. I feed the fish almost daily and as I get near the lake I see these big wakes coming to me.

In 2002 I upgraded to a Canon D60 camera. It is an amazing camera. I can take photos with up to a 5 minute exposure with very little noise in the photos. See the moonbow page to see the difference.

Recently I joined the American Legion and the VFW. I was ask to join the Marion Co Veterans Honor Guard. We are in some parades and do the military honors at about 65 veterans funerals a year. Some weeks we'll have 3 funerals. Most of the members of the Honor Guard are veterans of WWII and Korea. For some reason not many 'Nam vets and Gulf vets want to join. I can understand why some 'Nam vets don't want to join after they way they were treated when they came home. This is me in my 'dress blues'. This is the same uniform that the "Old Guard" wears during ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery in Washington DC. This isn't much but it is something that the familys of the deceased vet really seem to appreciate.

More Later.........