I became involved in photography in 1962 while studying Journalism at the University of Montana. After graduation I worked as photographer for several Newspapers in the Northwest. Including the Billings Gazette and Idaho Falls Post Register, I moved to Southern California and spent 23 years with the San Diego Union-Tribune. This was a period of flux in newspaper industry resulting from the change from the clunky Press cameras to the much improved system that was faster, much more powerful, producing better images and better in every way. I was very good at 35-mm and, within a year, led the U-T into the light. In doing so I won many local, state-wide and national awards. I was part of the Pulitzer team coverage of the PSA Airliner crash in 1978. Twice I was nominated for, but did not win, an individual Pulitzer.
In 1988 Photoshop showed me that the future was digital and I left the paper in 1991 to pursue it. And here I am, 78 years old and still excited about our art form…