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Living life to the fullest is what I aim to do. I love to travel and experience new things. In addition to visiting over half the states in the US, I've been to Canada, St Thomas USVI, Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua, Ascension Island, Azores, Bermuda, England, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Crete, Egypt, Israel, Tunisia, Djibouti, Russia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Thailand, Guam, Japan, Okinawa, Afghanistan, Mexico, and the Philippines.

I was born and raised in Texas. I joined the military right out of high school, doing two hitches as a US Navy Photographer (including a tour in Florida where I got my scuba certification). After leaving the Navy I returned to Florida to attend college where I majored in Business.

I left college after 2 years, when I had the opportunity to go to work for photographic services at Cape Canaveral where I worked for 10 years. I then spent a year working as a freelance photographer/ videographer, before accepting a position as a photo lab manager.

I returned to active duty in late 2001, but made a complete career change into an un-related field. I recently retired from the military. Although I left professional photography behind years ago, I still enjoy shooting for myself :)

I'm in the process of organizing photos here now and also trying to get my website up and running properly. I have thousands of photos to dig through, so please bear with me while I try to bring order to chaos ;-)

I've had the opportunity to travel more in recent years. Ten countries just since 2006. My primary interest now is underwater photography which I started doing in August of 2007. I am a PADI Divemaster with almost 500 dives now. My current setup is a Nikon D300 in an Ikelite housing with dual Ikelite Substrobes.

I've dived extensively in Florida, Japan and the Philippines as well as Southern California.