On his eleventh birthday, his parents gave him a Brownie Hawkeye and he began shooting black and white prints of his family and surroundings. He still has that old Brownie Hawkeye. In high school in the early 1960s, he experimented with the Polaroid process and found it very rewarding. From the Polaroid format, he changed to the 35mm – first with film and now with digital. He currently uses both Nikon film and digital cameras to capture his images.