I've always liked the bright colors, the noisy excitement and happy discovery of the Winter holidays. My first super eight movies were short clips from fairy tale stories my mother used to read me when I was a kid. I was certain that someday I would make movies based on fantasy. Through an unexpected turn of events, I became a different kind of movie maker. As a professional photojournalist I've been paid to travel the world and record all sorts of reality for clients like National Geographic, Discovery Channel, Travel, BBC, CBS Sunday Morning, NBC and ABC. Arriving in the middle of the night in Casablanca, we stepped off the plane and immediately drove to the Medina in order to follow the Gypsy tribes selling water and "charming" very large snakes. After a grueling six hour ride in a Land Rover over pot holes and muddy trenches, we found the Orinoco River location in Venezuela where our story subject was about to release two hundred baby crocodiles into the wilderness. I spent three months in New Orleans recording the Katrina disaster and followed that with chasing the determined Tornado Chasers. We drove 16,000 miles from St. Cloud, Minnesota to Amarillo, Texas and back. I flew in with the National Guard to record Atlanta's "Snowpocalypse". I've been deposited into a raging forest fire in Kern County, California. I've spent a week on Alcatraz recording the reenactment of the Great Escape. And finally now, thru photography and painting, I've rediscovered some of the bright, shiny fantasy I've always wanted to share with the world.