In about 2000, after a fifteen year hiatus from photography I purchased a digital camera. As an analog photographer I was very much into manipulating the image. I did everything including tpne line, posterazition, potassium ferricynide bleaching to melting negatives and slides. I had been photographing since 1947 and needed a change of pace. Digital finally gave me what I needed. I was able to create images along with photographs. For a long time I concentrated more on the manipulation side of photography so I felt it necessary to refer to myself as imagemaker rather than photographer. This is first of a planned trilogy. Although manipulation will be a part of all three books the next one will concentrate more on photographs of 'things' and the last on my passion, photographs of people.