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My love of photography lead my father to build me a photographic darkroom in the family garage.  I was able to equip the darkroom with full capabilities to produce poster size enlargement in black & white as well as color.  I also was able to buy equipment that allowed me to handle large format negatives up to 4 x 5 inch in size.  Hiring myself out at a young age, I was able to acquire some very expensive and elaborate equipment.  Today I own a full range of photographic gear suitable for a full scale operation.

I may retire someday and return to my roots as a professional photographer and start up my own practice again.

While at Disneyland I specialized in photographing all of the group pictures of the parade casts and some of the other shows in the Park.  The art of using large format cameras to produce very details photographs is a bit of a lost art.  The photo department of Disneyland used to take all the cast photo, but the quality just suitable for the subject matter. People's faces were so small even in an 8x10 photo required the use of a large format camera to get enough detail to be able to pick people out in the final photo.