I am an independent, amateur photographer, living in Southeastern Pennsylvania, taking as many photos as I can during spare moments, apart from my actual job, and donating my portrait and event services free of charge to several not-for-profit institutions and to individuals in the area. While I am self-taught, I did benefit from five years of early formal art instruction (from 4th to 8th grades) in the famed Saturday classes of the Toledo Museum of Art. I've also pursued a recurrent project of civic photography - Faces of Reading - endeavoring to see each of the City's residents as an individual, all of us as a community.