HEY- WHERE DID THESE PICS OF YOU WITH THE CAT COME FROM?
"My Dad had a brilliant idea to start a Pet Portrait business. This was truly unconventional and ahead of its time back then?nobody else was doing it. I remember being summoned to the studio in my Sunday best to have my Uncle Chuck photograph me with my dad?s cat, Focus. He was going to put my picture in the brochure! I fell in love with the experience. It was incredible to me that such a great photographer was a slave to the wiles of a cat. I saw Chuck think (which was something he didn?t have to do often with his photography tenure). He had to wait for his subject, there was no way to direct him?he just had to wait. When I saw the brochures and realized my dad was starting this business, I was elated at the thought that someday I could be a pet photographer. I was 8 years old and felt as though I?d found what I?d been searching for my whole life. Sadly, for some reason my father never followed throuhg on the idea. Now almost 30 years later, I'm finally doing it."