Artist's Bio
Jim and His Sailboat - Baddeck, NS
Raised in a family boatyard business on Cape Cod, Jim joined the Navy to be a Naval Aviator. He flew the Navy A-4 Skyhawk and A-7E Corsair II in Navy squadrons and made eight major deployments aboard aircraft carriers USS Shangri-La (CV 38), USS John F Kennedy (CV 67), and USS Nimitz (CVN 68).
Jim was formally educated at the University of Michigan, Texas A&I University, and University of North Florida. He holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree in Physics, a minor in Mathematics and a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA).
Following twenty-five years of military service, Jim settled in Cambridge, MD and spent the next nine years as a consultant providing cost analysis, cost research, and cost estimating services in support of major military procurements. Acquisition of a Mooney M20F aircraft aided him in attending the many meetings required with DOD clients while he continued to reside on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
In 1997, Jim’s wife, Laura Lea, succumbed after a short, intense bout with cancer... a devastating blow for Jim. As a father of four but no kids in the nest and having previously lost a daughter, Jennifer, in a traffic accident, Jim altered his life-course. As a youngster he had dreamed of taking sailing/voyaging adventures. He acquired a suitable boat, let a smaller one go, he sold a home that was too large for one person, he moved into a condo, and folded the consulting business. In the ensuing years Jim has spent three to seven months of each year aboard his boat, Lord’s Prayer, named for the last moments spent with Laura Lea, and watched a series of precious grandchildren mysteriously enter his life and capture his heart. Jim married again in 2001 to the former Christine (Betts) Majors of Cambridge, Maryland. The two have ten grandchildren between them now.
From childhood, Jim had an interest in photography.
His first camera was a Brownie Hawkeye. As a Midshipman in the Navy, he
owned his first 35 mm camera. Later flying the A-7E from the deck of the USS Nimitz
(CVN 68), Jim used Navy cameras to capture images from the cockpit...
pictures of foreign ships
& aircraft for intelligence
use.
In recent years Jim has owned an assortment of 35 mm cameras as well as several digital cameras, each reflecting the technology of the time. With rapid improvements in digital imagery, Jim found himself becoming an avid enthusiast of this new technology. He joined a photo club, and began self-study effort in hopes of better understanding the technical and the artistic aspects of this image medium. In the process he has acquired a collection of photos with which he is well-pleased. It is some of these images that are offered here on this web site for fine art prints and that are offered by host company Alamy (a London-based stock image enterprise) for use by magazine editors, book editors, and the like.