Graduate of Cleveland's Cooper School of Art (in Photography) and a veteran Navy Photojournalist and newspaper photographer.

Started as photojournalist with The Morning Journal in Lorain, Ohio; taught photography at Lorain County Community College, Elyria, OH, Mesa College, San Diego, CA, Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA, and Central Texas College military sites in San Diego and Guam.

Was mainly a photojournalist then; an impressionistic realist today - whatever that is.