When all else failed, my music was the language with which I spoke. My music tells of my triumphs, my failures, my loves and hopes and desires. With the art of photography I have been able to capture ideas, loves, interests and recorded my life in a way. Pictures are the window to the imagination which lets us relive our lives when a photograph opens the pages of our book of memories. In art, through charcoal drawings I expressed my philosophical views and captured images that a camera might have rendered more accurate but the nuances that charcoal afforded me gave them a bit more expression. A study of history has given me an appreciation for the past that has shaped my life and future. My schooling in automotive repair eventually came to fruition when of all things I became a camera repairman. The study of mechanics and electronics helped me diagnose the movements of cameras and their electronic circuitry. I studied violin since the age of nine and then I took up clarinet to play in my first year at Charles Evans Hughs High School in NYC. Then I went to Music and Art High School for my second year and I learned piano. I left there after a year and a half and wound up in Curtis High School in Staten Island, NY. Eventually the knowledge of these instruments led to the ability to play about 18 different instruments. In 1987 I got interested in synthesizers and in 1988 I got my first midi music editor, Voyetra SP Gold. From there I then started what I wanted to do all my life. I started to compose music and to present I have done about 3000 pieces. At present if you were to play every piece I have composed end to end it would take 14.8 days. I have slowed down a bit these days but I never know when the juices of creativity will begin to flow again. I spend a great deal of time these days with my photography. My motto is "Make a difference" in what ever you do.