I remember this day every year.  When it happened, I was working for the Buffalo Bills coaching staff.  I got up to go to work that day – it was a Tuesday.  Tuesdays were game-plan days and I started and worked later to assemble the playbooks.  My sister Noreen called our house and told us to turn on the TV.  We were watching a replay when NBC news cut to a live feed as we…

There are a lot of photographers out there.  A lot of them are good.  Why am I doing this?  Isn't the market already flooded?  For me there is a single photo which motivates me to be a photographer.  It's not a famous photo.  It wasn't even shot by a great rockstar photographer.
It's a photo of my parents at their wedding in 1956.

I spent hours staring at it as a child.  I imagined what…