These are old, and I need to scan them. The ones that I do have scanned have my legal name on the watermark. The majority were taken with my Chinon CP-7m that my parents gave me for my high school graduation. A few were taken with my grandmother’s Pentax.

My paternal grandmother would take me with her when she traveled, sometimes. She was a freelance photographer. Some of her photographs are featured, uncredited, on the Rockton Township Historical Society’s website.

These are more recent and taken with my cellphone. I’m not sure where the Tardis was (my brother was a Doctor Who fan). It was somewhere between Milwaukee and Jefferson, Wisconsin.

I’ve done some freelance wedding photography, for old friends, and my brother’s senior portraits. Otherwise, I haven’t done much photography of people except for family gatherings.

This is one of the few drawings that I still have. I took art for two years in high school. I couldn’t take it all four years because it interfered with my math classes. Somewhere, I have an art pad with sketches that I did of a few houses and cars. Unfortunately, my art classes interfered with any foreign language classes. I remember some German that I had learned in grade school, but it’s just counting from one to ten (my maternal family is from Germany).

I included this drawing, some of my photography, and creative writings, with my college application to Beloit College. I think that was the only reason that I was accepted. My English teacher was surprised because my GPA was only a 4.0 (Beloit required at least a 4.2 or a 4.5). I had wanted to become a photojournalist, which would have required a dual degree. Unfortunately, I couldn’t afford it and ended up dropping out of community college. When I took classes, again, it was online through American InterContinental University. My current degree is an Associate of Arts in Business Administration in Visual Communications.

FYI, I no longer live in Northern Illinois, where I grew up, and I use an alias, online.