I retired in 2013, and with the encouragement of family and friends, I decided to become a freelance photographer to expand on what had always been one of my lifelong hobbies. Being self-taught, I have been kept fairly busy photographing family portraits, reunions, birthdays, engagements, and weddings. In the meanwhile, I have been travelling, mainly around Michigan's two beautiful peninsulas and taking seasonal and geographic specific photographs everywhere I went. I try to concentrate on the visual accuracy of my pictures, to show my subjects in the most realistic light or...more