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Fred's
interest in photography came early, as he took over the 8mm
home movie camera duties on family vacations and snapped photos with
an old 620 twin-lens reflex before his teens. By high school,
Fred realized his budding interest in drawing and art. After high school,
his military service took him to Vietnam, where he created combat
briefing graphics for his Army aviation unit. While there he purchased
his first 35mm SLR, which he often used from the open door of a
Huey chopper buzzing over the jungle and along rivers. He finished his service stateside
as a photographer and photo lab technician for an Army photography
unit.
Once again a civilian, Fred developed his fascination with nature
and bird photography while completing his commercial art degree.
After graduation, he began his work career as a newspaper reporter,
feature writer and photographer while also running the newspaper's
photo lab. Following that, he spent over a decade working in conventional
commercial art and film photography. Then, just as computers took their first steps into the world of
digital graphics, Fred pioneered in the new digital technology. He spent the following decade running his own video
production and computer graphics business, shooting and editing
video, and creating graphics and animations for the video medium.
The decade that followed brought another sea change, as the World
Wide Web crept into the public mainstream. Fred migrated his computer
graphics and photography skills into web design, web graphics and
3D animation. That same decade saw the fledgling technology of
digital photography develop into a truly practical and exciting
medium that meshed perfectly with Fred's artisitic and computer
graphics skills. For Fred, it seemed a match made in heaven.
Among Fred's other creative endeavors
is the publishing of his first fantasy adventure novel, the first
of a trilogy. He presently works as a multimedia designer in
the University of North Carolina system where photography is a
routine part of his job.
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