I am really hopig that this "forum" gives us a chance to interact more. It's easy (not really) for me to sit around the office and come up with crazy promotions and ideas for products and services. What I am missing, though, is your input.

As I post more, I will be giving you the inside scoop. I will let you know what I am thinking and where I am heading. I am hoping you will respond and tell me if I am on the right track, or if I am completely crazy. Some of you have formed that opinion already!

Let me start by giving you a brief history of why I am in business today.

Before operating my own photography business, I was in Technical Support and Customer Service for large enterprise software companies. Talk about crazy... I loved it! There is nothing more rewarding to me than helping someone solve a problem or trying to give someone what they want.

On the down side, Support is a very negative job. Very rarely did my phone ring because someone was happy. For almost 25 years, my phone rang because someone had a problem, was unhappy, or needed something more than she was getting.

A while back, I was faced with an interesting choice - family or job? Call it burn out, call it mid-life crisis, or call it something else. As the director of a large Support team, I was facing a number of major issues at work and some very postiive things at home. Neither of these were unusual.

What was different this time, though, was I chose to stick by the family. There were things going on in my personal life that I did not want to miss - once in a lifetime types of things. It was then that I made the decision to leave the corporate world and spend more quality time with my wife and 3 boys.

So why photography? Easy... I have been taking photographs since I was a kid. There were years that I put my camera around my neck right after I put my shirt on. I even went to school for photography. Things changed, however, and I went into the technical field. But, I never stopped using the camera or learning to improve my photographic style.

So, here I am today. I have combined my love of family with my technical skills, my service skills, and my photographic skills. I believe the family is very important. I believe in capturing the significant interactions and emotions that exist between family members.

Take a look at my gallery and let me know what you think.