Pete has been a hobby photographer since the mid 1950's starting out with many landmark pictures in his home town Charleston, South Carolina. His first SLR was a Pentax which he purchased at the army PX in Japan in 1960 and which he used to take thousands of photographs while in the army in Japan and Korea (mostly slides). He continued while at Clemson University and later in the Atlanta, Georgia area where he specialized in flower photography for local flower and garden clubs. Unfortunately all that was lost to a house fire in 1984. Being discouraged by that, he did not do...more