Born and raised in Hartford, Connecticut I've always had keen interest in music, film and still photography. While singing and playing music in R & B bands throughout junior high school and high school I started taking pictures with a Kodak Instamatic and shooting movies with a Kodak Super 8 movie camera given to me by my mother for Christmas. However at the time music was my passion and it wasn't until I finished school at the Hartford Conservatory of Music and migrated to San Francisco, California in 1974 did I get an opportunity to really experiment with 35mm still photography. I would...more