My Mother was a creative in the design world while my Father was a creative in business logistics. In my early teens my Grandfather gave me an old Agfa 120 film camera. My parents had an Argus C3. I learned the basics of photography using these two cameras. Later I got a Canon 35mm camera and began processing film and prints in my bathroom. My first job after college was at Zipatone Inc., shooting line art with Kodalith film on a room size repro camera. Next I spent a few years working in cartographic production. After that I spent the following 30 years in the woods designing and building recreational trails. This was the most creative period in my life. There are literally millions of people using the trails which I designed. During this time I discontinued photography except for work related snapshots. Recently, I ceased the working life and resumed photography as a leisure pursuit. I really don’t realize the scope of my creativity but my friends seem to appreciate it. I enjoy photographing city buildings as much as a scenic landscape, street life or intricate geometrics. Most days I am out roaming in search of images, writing poems and short stories or designing and building what I need to make my life enjoyably functional. I read this somewhere and it’s true, Photography has one take.
Admired Photographers: Kenneth Josephson, László Moholy-Nagy, Daido Moriyama and Edward Ruscha.
nix_morton 02.15.2026