Old Dog - New Tricks

Long gone are the days where you can exist without some elements of new technology in your life. I certainly remember those times before digital image capture, cell phones, debit cards and the internet. Getting off the sofa to change the TV channel or flip the LP on the turntable... being tethered to a corded phone conversation... arriving at the bank with a check only to find closed doors... typing a school paper with very limited typing skills… So much has changed!

This old dog has added Facebook, Twitter & now Blogger to the tool palette. Facebook has been great so far; because I have reconnected with so many lost friends. Twitter is still a little strange for me. I'm sure that the beginning here at Blogger will be slow and goofy, but I hope to make this a place where you can come to go behind the lens and behind the man.

I love photography and have been fortunate enough to find sustained opportunity. God is good! I hope to use this venue to share stories and images from my archives. Plus, things are sometimes on my mind and I need a place to share.



This image was created for the 2009 Los Angeles Black Business Expo. I have been working with BBX for nearly a decade. It all grew out of a friendship with Rene Washington, the graphic designer and Isidra Person-Lynne, the BBX communications wiz. I vividly remember driving the streets of Los Angeles one day... looking up to see the first billboard image that I shot for the Expo... wow! It was something that I hadn't imagined in my best dreams. Since then, I have created several billboard images for the Expo. My friend, Wendy Raquel Robinson, has been featured on several of those billboards. This year, she is joined by a few students from Amazing Grace Conservatory; a school that she founded with the late Tracey Coley.