When I was very young, my father had a small photo studio in our hometown in Indiana. I spent many hours in his
studio watching him magically develop pictures of people who dropped in to get their portraits taken, four shots
for ten cents. Really cheap, but that was back in the 1930's. After graduating from high school and spending
four years in the Navy, I decided to become a teacher and upon graduating from Ball State University
began my first career in a small rural school in Northeast Indiana. It was a great opportunity to experience the growth
of children as I taught arts and crafts to each of the twelve grades in the school. I ended my teaching career at
South Side High in Fort Wayne, Indiana 30 years later, retiring early so that I could pursue a second career, traveling the
Art Fairs and Festivals of the Midwest, East and South, selling my paintings. During that time I maintained a distant
interest in Photography but did not get serious about the craft until I bought my first digital camera. My interest
has since come full circle and, although I'm still a painter at heart, my current interest is in recording and
manipulating images from on my travels around America. The digital age has freed me to explore photography with
greater freedom. What would have taken me several hours and dollars worth of darkroom equipment
now is almost instantaneous and free of film and chemicals. I work with two cameras, a Nikon S-6 and a
Nikon D-80 SLR, and computer software for re-creating the visions I discover "on the run".
It is to my father, Frank M. Roberts, that I dedicate this web site.
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