About Me

I guess I have always been interested in flying, even before I took my first flight. My parents took me for a helicopter flight when I was three-years-old. They said it scared the crap out of me, but I believe I was just overwhelmed with the thrill of it all :D. I remember taking a flight with one of my classes in elementary school, at probably age ten, out at the Delta State University flight line. I recall not wanting to come down and hoping the flight lasted all day!

I went on to join the United States Navy right out of high school, and ended up in VFA-82, a F/A-18C squadron in Jacksonville, FL. There, working around the most high-tech Naval aircarft around, I fueled my love for aviation. After getting out in 1996, I worked a brief job at the Greenville, MS airport doing maintenance on various facilities, and occasionally prepping or painting an aircraft. I ended up back in Cleveland and the flying bug bit me again in 2007, when I enrolled as a student to learn to fly small general-aviation aircraft. I will always be a student-always trying to learn something new about flying. This brought me back around again to another old hobby of mine-electronics and RC vehicles. Drones were the best way I could find to do both-fly and 'tinker' with devices.

Photography wasn't something I naturally gravitated to, but once you get a subject in the view-finder from a bird-eye view, it puts things into a different context. It is all a new learning experience for me, mixed in with some old loves. I am trying everyday to figure out new ways to use this wonderful tool to gain a new perspective on what used to be everyday sights for me. Hopefully, I can put my vision to work to provide value-added data of a new construction site, or maybe just a different view than the norm for my clients.

ABOUT ME