By my late teens I was hanging out with combat photographers rotating back from Vietnam and seeing some amazing imagery.   Politics aside, my aesthetics matured during this period and I began to find meaning in all that celluloid.  I also found myself editing film on upright Moviolas and learning to tell stories with motion pictures.

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The next forty plus years have been an incredible journey of adventure, imagery and enlightenment.  I have walked every continent, interacted with just about every culture and as a freelancer, contributed images that have been both memorable and profound.  I have always been driven by photo-journalism and documentaries.  Even as a young woman I saw myself as a Dorothea Lang or Robert Flaherty.  I must admit that I have been more of a photographer than a filmmaker in my career and although I never been drawn to the "Hollywood" thing, I've secretly desired to produce and direct my own "Lawrence of Arabia".



It wasn't until I met my husband that I saw my movie cameras as more than storytelling devices.  Being a NASA engineer it was only natural for him to view them as the mechanical devices they were.  He would always help research the details of a new camera when I needed to buy one but then the old ones would go under his "knife" to see what made them tick.  Soon I  couldn't watch that anymore and I began to hide them away to avoid such a fate. I guess that more than anything is how my collection began.  To date the collection consists of about 650 small gauge cameras from everywhere and everytime.  I look forward to displaying as much of them as possible through this forum.

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This small effort is my way of sharing a lifetime of good fortune and education.  Enjoy.