[GH85Carrera]

I was so busy with photography and making money in high school (I was a greedy money hungry kid) I was too busy at school to skip any day. I actually got my first regular job while sitting in math class. The commercial photographer the school had hired for years saw I had taken most of his business so he hired me. He was shooting photos of the kids in class, and he leaned over and whispered in my ear, "Ya wanna job" and I said sure. I think he wanted me to give him the work, but I still did the school photography all in my home darkroom. I worked for him after school, and on Saturday. He taught me a lot. I bought my first new car (1973 Super Beetle) and 13 months later ordered my 74 914 2.0 when I was 19.

I was in the principals office a lot, but it was to keep the Hassleblad system and my 35 MM camera system in his locked office cabinet. The principal, and one trusted office secretary and myself had the only keys to that cabinet.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays the state legislature met. I would go into the Alabama legislature every Tuesday and Thursday and meet a local reporter for the state's largest paper, the Birmingham News. Once I graduated, I spent many hours up there. And in Governor Wallace's office.