Welcome to my site.

I'm a n autistic man with also many God given gifts.  I guess the greatest gift of all was to take great photos.  My ultimate goal is to live a full independent life.  



I was around 3 years old when my folks were informed that I had autism.  I guess I was 12 when my mother said to me is was caused by a chemical imbalance of the brain, but it was not until I was around 19 when the word “Autism”  was introduced to me.  Once I read up on it in the World Book Encyclopedia, I remember saying to myself, “So that’s it!”  Could you imagine what the odds were in acquiring the disorder back then?  In 1970 alone, 1 in 25,000!!  Today the odds are between 1-90 to 110...(1-70 in boys) now that’s shocking.



I started taking pics in high school when I was around 16, I guess.  Had a great time during the upperclass years at Downers Grove South H.S. that I wanted to keep the best moments in my high school career and preserve them for life.  But I had thoughts of going into broadcasting at first when I enrolled at Illinois State University..I couldn’t hack it in that field and ended up going into Graphic and Visual arts.  I took photo courses there and did well, and continued to take pics of mostly social events for the college yearbook staff.  I guess social living was the thing that inspired me most for my picture taking.



People who are autistic obtain special skills that are considered beyond levels of genius.  Savants such as myself shows skills such as mathematical, artistic, musical, spatial and mechanical abilities.  I discovered I had perfect pitch when I was around 11, yet never stuck to music.  I could remember a long list of certain things, yet I never could remember some other life essentials.  I guess autism gave me the skill to compose photos the right way using the “Rule of Thirds” method and design graphic trademarks and logos, quickly...which was what I originally wanted my career to be based on.



Today I work for a magazine called GLANCER. (www.glancermagazine.com)

A Chicagoland community living magazine.  I hope you found my story interesting and would like very much to working with you soon.