Ship's Company, USS Saratoga, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 1985 Who's Billy?
The Basics: I live in Illinois, near Kankakee, about 50 miles south of Chicago. How an ocean and mountain lovin' guy like me came to be here is a long story . . and one for another page, altogether.
Ship's Company, USS Saratoga, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, 1985
Some Facts:
Born in Omaha, NE, . . . dragged around the world through childhood by Air Force parents,
and endured teen years in New Joisey, (Exit 5) . .escaped NJ by joining the Navy in
'74. This is where things started to get interesting . . my Navy rating was
Photographer, and I spent 12 years traveling the world again. Assignments
included Hawaii, Moffett Field, CA, Washington, D.C., and U.S.S. Saratoga, my
last assignment. Those years included marriage, the birth of a son, travels to
Japan, Alaska, Iceland, Norway, Amsterdam, most of the Med, Spain, France, Italy,
Yugoslavia, Israel, and Singapore. After the Navy, featured highlights were the
birth of a daughter, and a divorce. For relaxation, I like to listen to music;
blues, classic rock, jazz and classical, or play one of my guitars. If you'd like to
get into my head a little more, check out the Pondering Pages.
I started my photography business in '93, and concentrated on weddings and portraits. I also work for a studio here, doing school portraits. There are some samples of portraits in Billy's Album, and some of my photojournalism in the Navy Gallery. In '97 I bought my present system, a 166mmx Pentium, 64mb RAM, and a slave 2.5 gig hard drive. I put the extra drive in to handle Adobe Photoshop as efficiently as possible, and I have to report that its a much happier program now, having 1.5 gig of disc all to itself. I'm using FrontPage 98 to build this site, and I process all of my images in Photoshop. I also use web utilities from Ulead for Java, and gif animations. You can find links to those vendors for more information on their products on my Links page. Most of the photographs on the site are mine, with the exception of a few of my Chat Friends pics.
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This page best viewed with a bottle of wine in your hand.
Updated 7/17/99
All Images Copyright ©William's Photography 1998/1999
A special memorial to a friend
