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"Design is not about what it looks or feels like. It's about how it works." - Steve Jobs

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No. 1, Photography #1

My first photography professor was Josef Breitenbach at The New School for Social Research in 1965, and his first series of rules were:

No. 1, The first thing to do is put the strap around your neck.

No. 2, When you put your camera on a table, don't let the strap hang off the table.

and, whew,

No. 3, When you are about to photograph something, and you think you are close enough, take one step forward.

Well, to get started, I guess I should give my background, as I begin this blog.

I was born in New York, April 16,1945. I grew up in Long Beach, N.Y. and graduated Syracuse University Marketing Management/Photojournalism. In 1974 I moved to Israel. I did my first six months on a Kibbutz, then moved to Jerusalem. I worked as an Advertising Photographer, house photographer for an advertising agency, Ruder and Finn, got married, and we had our first daughter. In 1979 we bought land in the Western Galilee, built a house, and helped start an Eco-Village called Clil, and now have four daughters. All Clil has never been connected to the electric company. We started with wind power and moved on to solar energy.

In 1985, I started a software company here in Clil. I wrote a program to run the wholesale fruit and vegetable market. The computers then, PC-XT, were pretty tricky and I used to go to Tel Aviv on Thursdays, the billing day, and waited for one of the customers' PCs to crash. I hung out at Yossi Orbach's graphic studio. Yossi and I had done many record covers together. One day he said, "Hey man, you're a designer, why don't you work here, as a designer." And so it was, Thursdays at Yossi's, designing and waiting for the PCs to crash. After several years, about 1995, we both moved on to be part of a larger design group called Imagine. While there, I was in charge of Multi-Media and one of the partners suggested that I check out this internet thing. After a short while I was in charge of Internet Design, as well. For me, HTML was another language. We wrote it word for word; there wasn't any quickie drag and do programs; I wrote each word needed in the programming of sites. Starting in 1972, after my first divorce (there have been two) I started studying Feng Shui. Somehow, after studying with Grand Master Lin Yun, R.I.P. and a trip to China, I became the Master of Feng Shui design in Israel.

So, my background of Photography, Design (from graphic to internet to architectural), Programming, Organic Agriculture and Alternative Energy, made me decide at the ripe age of 65 yrs. old, that I feel I have something to say, and so this blog is now being created, Hi!