I worked as a photojournalist for almost 50 years. I have been an amateur photographer, a freelance photographer, a staff photographer, an unemployed photographer (more than once), a photo editor, and the Chief Photographer at a daily newspaper. Now I’m a semi-retired photographer, which means I get to photograph whatever I like. I still take select assignments. I sell some stock photos and I shoot books. I live in a big blue house in a small rural community south of Chicago with my wife who has put up with this photographic obsession for more than fifty years.