My images have marked milestones in my life, I shot the image of my grandfather with one of his prize fighting roosters some 30 years ago as part of a photo class at Texas Tech University were I earned a B.F.A and an M.A. degree. This was the first image that I experimented with Photoshop. What started out a restoration project came alive one night while I was learning the program.The result was an image that I had been searching for and unable to accomplish in a darkroom. It became my Frame of Reference; where I came from and where I wanted to go with my work. I believe...more