I’ve been retired, more or less, for just about 8-months now and one of the greatest joys I have these days is the ability to photograph the things I want to and not have to worry about adhering to someone else’s desires or needs. Don’t get me wrong, I have always enjoyed my job, but as with most things in life there have been moments I would have rather not been shooting pictures. Talk to my past Editor, Don Perryman, and he’ll be the first to tell you how much I enjoyed shooting basketball mugs!
I do miss the newsroom and the people, just like I missed the Air Force and the people I left behind when I retired. Right now it’s all about catching those fleeting moments of my newest nieces and nephews in the process of growing up. I missed a lot of that with their parents as most of them did so while I was traveling the world shooting pictures. Don’t get me wrong, I loved what I did then and the travel, but now it’s all about the kids, and the things I want to photograph, such as this shot of Damion today at lunch.
Shot with the built-in iPhone 4s camera and post processed in Photoshop CS6.