On my first television gig, I cried and pooped my pants.  At least I assume I did. I was in diapers.  I was about one year old, and I was an 'actor' in the background of a scene.  In retrospect, it was probably inevitable that I would end up in television.  My dad was a pioneering television director.  My uncle was a network executive.  Four other family members are in film or TV. Apparently it's genetic.

But I fell backwards into TV and video production in the late 1980s, after earning a BFA cum laude  in Photographic Illustration at RIT, then starting my career as a still photographer.  Photography was --and is-- a lifelong obsession. [Take a look here.]   Later, as I delved into moving pictures, there were Master Class workshops with Russell Carpenter and Vilmos Zsigmond.

Over the years I've shot TV commercials, co-produced a groundbreaking PBS documentary on AIDS, shot and edited a children's educational TV series with puppets, directed a short corporate video with a cast of nine thoroughbreds all playing the same horse, traveled all over the South with some of the greatest civil rights heroes of their generation, had an ad play on the Times Square jumbotron, and shot interviews with celebrities and world leaders.  

I've also rappelled off a building with a camera strapped to me, dived with sharks, stood in things you don't want to stand in, removed gaffer's tape from a surgeon's chest hair, and snaked microphone cables in places where people don't usually wear cables.  It's what I do.  I'm the luckiest guy in the world.