I would like to express my gratitude to my three wonderful grown-up children, Marsha, Frank, and Antonia, who have given me the memories I cherish every waking moment of every day. Even though I don't get to see them as often as I wish, I know they are with me in spirit as I go about my days and nights of teaching my world of film and digital photography and digital photofinishing students.

I would also like to thank Marjorie La Belle for taking the time out of her day a couple of years ago to capture this latest portrait of me so that current and future students have a better idea with whom they are learning how to paint with light.

If you're interested, I'm 5' 9", apolitical, single, a non-denominational minister, a Florida Notary Public, I don't vote, a Viet Nam Vet that welcomes home all his Sisters and Brothers, disabled without regret, and happy to help whenever you feel like asking. But I don't read minds and I don't interrupt when you're talking or asking questions, so you have to tell me what you want and what you need if you're going to be one of my students.

Thanks to the support I receive from my ever-faithful students around the globe, TPC is "on the road" discovering new ways of presenting photographic techniques to the world. I have added new images for clarification of certain subject matter, as well as adding some variety to the images you may still be trying to duplicate (flatter us, please!) as seen in my new Tips & Tricks and Tom's Latest Photos on the HomePage.

Now, get off your duffs, buy some fresh film or a clean memory card, dust off your photo-log, and get to shooting stuff that will convince us that you paid attention to all our Email explanations and editing critiques. Try ISO's or brands of film you never took the time with which to experiment; new varieties are being introduced almost daily, or learn new methods and tools with your editing software. Pay attention, re-read chapters that didn't previously apply to your style, and take that detour that never seemed to offer interest to your portfolio. You ARE putting a portfolio together, aren't you? Okay, we'll back up with you and go over that part again.

Impress us, enlighten us with your Website images, show us you care, but at the very least, show us your images; afterall, we show you ours!

Thanks, really.
Tom
TPC