In the 80's, I bought my first computer (an Apple II) and immediately got hooked on computer graphics, even though all I had at the time was a 9-pin dot matrix B&W printer and Broderbund's Printshop.   I putzed around with graphics for about 10 years, and in 1993 I was using a "blazing" 66 Mhz DX2 Gateway, CorelDraw, and my pride and joy - a HP1200c color inkjet.  I was in hog-heaven, but most of the graphics' work being done at the time was vector imaging - clip art stuff.   In the mid-90's, I did start to scan photos and played with the resulting images - nothing serious though ..

.. and then digital cameras became affordable and readily available - for me, computer graphics and digital cameras were a match made in heaven.   I jumped on the bandwagon pretty early, and I found a new hobby that I've become immersed in.  I'm currently using a Nikon D300 with a variety of lenses including the Nikkor f/2.8 70-200 VR and the Sigma "Bigma", a 50-500mm monster.  I shoot RAW, and process the resulting images in Nikon Capture NX, a very comprehensive software package.  Since I've never seen an image that couldn't be improved (at least to my eye), I usually end up doing something to my pictures in Photoshop (currently using CS3) as well.

My wife, Sherry, and I both retired in June 2006.  She taught Kindergarten and 1st Grade on the Jersey Shore (Middletown) for 30 years, while I rode the Jersey Coast train into Manhattan where I was a consulting engineer.   We've retired to the perfect place.  Besides photography, my other hobbies include golf and fishing ... where better than Bay Creek on the Eastern Shore of Virginia to pursue these retirement dreams ..