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From atop the "switch-backs" just before descending Palos Verdes Dr. east, along the California coast. Fall, 2011, and a rather nasty storm cel hovering over the Pacific says the party is over, time to pack up because you are going to get whacked! "Real" weather in sunny southern California, that is, stuff that looks like this - is rare. But ... when it occurs, we can get pounded with monsoonal moisture working its way up the Baja peninsula.

As a kid I was fascinated with photographs. Look, Life magazine. National Geographic. That well-captured interplay of light and shadow...the notion of people, places and moments - all suspended in time. My first "real" camera was a Minolta Srt101. I was seduced. As a teenager, I learned how to develop film while working at Wyle Laboratories in El Segundo, and I still recall the smell of the developer...my eyes adjusting to the red filter light...and the sheer magic and delight of watching images begin to emerge. Life, family and a career as a teacher and psychologist intervened, not to mention a few more film cameras. Eventually, there was digital. Hah! Liberation! Photography is the creative medium that allows me to share...