As the tag line says:

• Husband to my great wife, Sheri, an artist and aspiring writer. We married in 1990.

• Dad to our daughter, Sarah, born in 2001. Sarah is an aspiring writer and photographer and has a few pics posted on her Flickr page.

• Instructor at Luminant Power's Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant near Glen Rose, Texas.

• Improving hobbyist photographer, which is what this website is all about.

• Fisherman, we have a 19-foot Skeeter bass boat that we honestly do not spend enough time in.

• Former Paramedic/Supervisor (part-time) at Texas EMS in Hood County Texas

• Retired firefighter from the Granbury VFD, having served in all ranks from fire fighter to fire chief.

• So-so writer (admittedly, the editors made it read much better than I wrote it) for 15+ years as a print and web columnist for FireRescue Magazine and their website FirefighterNation. Some of my photographs have also been published in FireRescue Magazine. I've also written for FireRescue1 (web) and Fire Apparatus Magazine (print).