I was exposed to photography and painting at a young age. Throughout school I took many art, design and photography courses and visited various museums around the country.

As a kid I enjoyed watching all motor racing on television though I didn’t attend a motor race until I was 20 (the 24 Hours of Daytona)! Fourteen hour drives to Daytona and Sebring were inked in my calendar as if they were trips across town. Except I was packing a dozen rolls of film and all the cameras and equipment I owned.

A number of my race photos I have had enlarged and autographed by drivers. Like my great shot of Max Papis from his American debut at Daytona in the ragged MOMO Ferrari, Dan Gurney, James Weaver, Juan Fangio II, Arie Luyendyk, Derek Bell, Andy Wallace, Geoff Brabham, Davey Jones, the late Bob Wollek, among others.

My first concours d’elegance, in Cincinnati, came in 1993. I have only missed this event a few times since then. I have attended concours events from Amelia Island, FL to Lexington, KY, Rodeo Drive and Pebble Beach. Stuffy or not, a concours is a great place to see some of the most amazing cars ever created. For instance, a Tulipwood-bodied Lagonda, a Millie Miglia-winning Ferrari, a 1913 Mercer Raceabout, the one and only NUB120 Jaguar XK-120, any Le Mans-winning car, or a Stout Scarab. A good concours is the best way to study the history of the motorized vehicle outside of a museum.

My automotive library spans hundreds of periodicals (Motorsport, RACER, AutoWeek, Autosport, British Car, Thoroughbred and Classic Cars, Classic Car Collector, to name a few) and over 100 books from 1952 onward.

So how did I end up here? In 1988 I took my first office job. At an ad agency. And man I was diggin’ it. Those creative people were having fun. I promptly changed my major from Business to Advertising and never looked back. I had found my calling. Print design is how it started but in the winter of ’96 a friend told me about this new HTML stuff he was doing. I have been an html-coding motorhead ever since.