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Old barn in the Champlain Valley of Vermont. I drove by this barn hundreds of times and one day I stopped. I thought the shadows were interesting. I waited for the very last rays of light to just barely shine across the barn boards and bring out texture. The light was gone twenty seconds after I made this exposure. This color barn is typical of Quebec Canadian barns. I bet this farmer is from Quebec.

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...