Well, I guess as long as I am starting a blog I might as well add a bit of historic background about yours truly. Yours truly had a prior career before going to school in New York City to study what photogrpahy was really about, lighting and composition. I was a successful businessman for the first 21 years of my adulthood after college at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. I was in my early forties involved in a business I had not enjoyed for many years and decided that if I did not make a change at that stage then i would wake up at sixty wondering where the challenge and enjoyment of career had gone and where the past 20 years had gone.

The reknowned International Center of Photography in NYC was where I learned the basics of studio lighting,...