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Waits River, Vermont. It was 10 below when I made this photograph and my fingers hurt so much I had trouble set the adjustments on the camera. I used a 4x5 view camera where you work under a black cloth and the image is upside down. Just as I was close to being ready to expose my film, someone lit their wood stove and some beautiful smoke appeared.

I got my start in photography by being a bad boy. I was in junior high and running with the wrong kids. I grew up in an Air Force family and my parents ordered me to get a hobby and took me to the hobby shops on base. Of course, I didn't like any of them so my dad picked the photo shop. The photo shop had cameras, a studio with lights, a 6 person darkroom and everything was free except film. The Airmen took me with them into the desert to shoot landscapes. I decided to study photography for 2 1/2 years at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara CA. It was brutal, but well worth it. When I graduated Uncle Sam was waiting, with open arms, and somehow I was a U.S. Army photographer with a top secret clearance...