Here's a quick little bio...

Currently I'm living in Akron, Ohio and working as a web content producer.

In the sixth grade I became interested in photography. I soon met the editor of the weekly newspaper at a camera club meeting and shortly after that started taking pictures for the newspaper. By the time I was in high school it became a nearly full-time job for me. It was such a tremendous experience. I worked with adults who treated me with respect, plus I had all the film I could shoot and access to a darkroom. To this day hearing anything off Billy Joel's "The Stranger" or "52nd Street" takes me back to those days, holed up in the darkroom for hours on end developing film and making prints while those tapes looped endlessly on the 8-track stereo in the darkroom.

Then it was off to college at Ohio University where I studied journalism, worked at internships every summer and then worked as a newspaper photographer for five years in South Carolina before transitioning into a photo editor and them moving to Akron.

I pretty much fluked into web work while working at the newspaper and made the career change. Some people at the time thought I was crazy. But I needed a change of life and career.

Photographers are usually Macintosh people so that was my comfort zone. I still use Macs every day but the geek side of me started to explore Unix when my company dumped a Silicon Graphics workstation into our laps. It was sink or swim. Eventually I got into Linux but then saw the light and switched to FreeBSD. Now that Apple has gone to OS X it's the best of both worlds. I look forward to the day I never have to work on or touch a Windows system.

I knew that one day I would go back to photography in some form. I went the digital route but came back to film for the time being. Now I'm just shooting pictures for myself.

I bought a film scanner to digitize old material and capture new images that I shoot.

Regards,
Jim