Looking back at your career path: Did you start as a photographer? All of my early career efforts were directed towards electronics and telecommunications. In the Army I had the unique experience of setting up a 50K watt, helicopter-transportable, A.M. Radio broadcast station in Thailand in 1963. We lived in a small camp just outside of the northern city of Khon-Kaen, about 350 miles north of Bangkok. When you live in a 3rd world country for a year ...you learn a lot! You learn to understand about cultural differences and appreciate life as we have it in the States. I saw the most abject poverty, daily, ...and meaningless deaths, disease, and fear. There was a weird dichotomy there too. They had a television station in town and several banks and photo studios ...yet just around the corner there were people living in filth in the streets and a few miles up the road, people would run away from a camera, believing that it might "capture" their soul.