After being discharged from the Air Force in 1991, and stationed in Alaska, my photography hobby took a back seat to computer animation. Running an early Amiga 3000 computer and exploring the BBS community was a fascinating hobby while raising my son. I spent enormous amounts of time attempting to come up with ways to make a living with 3D animation.

My wife and I made a military move to Clovis, New Mexico where I started my Computer Graphics degree. Photography was part of the course curriculum and pretty much ruined any chance of passing algebra since spending way more time in the photo lab than doing the algreba homework. Makes perfect sense to me.

I finished my degree in Powell, Wyoming and ended up moving south to Jackson, Wyoming where I fell into my early granite career. After a couple of years sawing, installing, and measuring granite, the career in Wyoming came to a halt along with the last marriage. Time to move back to Minnesota and start over again!

I picked up a magazine one day and read an article about stock photography. Thats pretty much how my photo passion blew up into a lot more than a hobby. I bought a Victory motorcycle and decided I needed paint and pipes, and all of the sudden I take up airbrush art. Between photography and airbrush art, a guy can only support so much time to either, and still keep a job! It's tough some days, but both hobbies have come a long way and I like to think that maybe I can find a way to make both be more profitable and still find time to go fishing once in awhile...